MA-351 Homework 5

Due Friday December 7, 2018, 4:59pm in my mailbox in SAS 3151.



All solutions must be submitted in hardcopy either to me in class or placed in my mailbox. Note my office hours on my schedule.

  1. Please give an example of a group profile such that the Borda count group consensus function violates Arrow's Axiom 2 [Irrelevant Alternative]. As weights, please use 1, 2, 3 to n for the n alternatives from first to last place, respectively, and where a smaller weighted Borda number ranks higher.