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, what is your expected profit when Design B is chosen?

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Normally Distributed

A statistical description of a data set that forms a bell-shaped curve when graphed, indicating that most values are close to the average.

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The mean initial compensation that individuals receive when they start a new job, typically used as a benchmark in job offer negotiations.

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A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the values differ from the mean.

Normally Distributed

A descriptor for a type of statistical distribution that is symmetric around its mean, showing that data near the mean are more frequent in occurrence than data far from the mean.