TABLE 5-8 Two Different Designs on a New Line of Winter Jackets

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TABLE 5-8
Two different designs on a new line of winter jackets for the coming winter are available for your manufacturing plants. Your profit (in thousands of dollars) will depend on the taste of the consumers when winter arrives. The probability of the three possible different tastes of the consumers and the corresponding profits are presented in the following table.

-Referring to Table 5-8, if you decide to choose Design A for 70% of the production lines and Design B for the remaining production lines, what is the coefficient of variation of your investment?

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Definitions:

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of numbers, calculated by adding them all together and dividing by the number of numbers.

Variance

A statistical measure of the dispersion of data points in a dataset, quantifying how far each data point lies from the mean.

Sum of Squared Deviations

The total of the squared differences between each observation and the mean of a dataset.

Standard Deviation

An indicator used to assess the degree to which data points diverge or scatter around the average value.