Question

Let's say that you are living in a two-bedroom apartment in Newbury St. Boston, MA and you are looking for a roommate to split the cost of rent, Internet, utilities, etc. Your job is to find a new roommate using the Weighted Decision Matrix technique. Provide at least 4 criteria you would use to choose your future roommate. Use MS Excel to create the matrix. Examples of criteria for your new roommate could be is the person neat, respectful, friendly etc.

Answer 1

I have chosen five fictitious friends (of course you will have yours).

Factors	Weights	Raw scores (out of 5)
		Tony	Steve	Bruce	Thor	Rhodey
Cleanliness of the person	0.300	1	5	3	3	4
Honesty and trustworthiness	0.300	2	5	4	4	4
Frindli[Cool]-ness	0.200	3	2	3	1	3
Talent	0.025	5	3	4	4	2
Academics	0.025	5	4	5	3	1
Networking level	0.100	3	1	1	1	4
Monetary position	0.050	5	1	1	1	3
Weighted scores		2.300	3.725	3.075	2.625	3.625

So,

the best is Steve Rogers.