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Author: Gary Armstrong, Philip Kotler
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A way through which the consumers could assess is to find out significant attributes and evaluates how the buying alternatives performs on such attributes. Every attribute like the size of the screen is provided a weight to affect its importance level to that customer. Later, the customer assesses every alternative on every attribute.
A table is provided with various attributes and its importance of weight for three brands, Brand A, B, and C.
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Brand A, B, and C
To calculate: The scores for the brands B and C and identify the brand that the consumer would select.
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