Which of the following precautions is most relevant during the pre-editing phase of decision making?

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Question 7

Which of the following is most likely to occur during the pre-editing phase of dominance structuring?

A) reducing the number of options by the use of elimination by aspect and satisficing
B) considering every reasonable option in an equal and thorough way
C) comparing our promising alternative to the other options in terms of the set of decision-critical attributes
D) adjusting the relative importance of the criteria until one option emerges as the obvious first choice
E) finding one alternative that is more attractive than the others on at least one critically important attribute

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