Managers who use the method of optimizing to make their decisions will attempt to choose
A) the first minimally acceptable alternative.
B) from those alternatives that have known results.
C) the least expensive alternative.
D) the alternative that produces the least conflict.
E) an alternative that achieves the best possible balance among several goals.

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Optimizing involves selecting the alternative that achieves the best possible balance among several goals. Therefore, the best choice is E. The other options do not take into account the need to balance multiple goals and are not reflective of the optimizing method.

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