Ophelia wants to buy a new hair dryer. She considers four models and assigns them belief ratings from 1 = very poor to 10 = very good and importance ratings from 1 = least important to 10 = most important. She sets a mental cutoff of 5 as a selection criterion for the model. Which of the following models is ophelia most likely to select if she employs the elimination-by-aspects rule to make the decision?
attribute importance model a model b model c model d
belief ratings
low price 8 7 4 3 6
power efficiency 6 4 6 7 8
styling 9 8 7 6 7

a. model a
b. model b
c. model c
d. model d