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

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SCENARIO 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 Scenario 5-8,if you decide to choose Design A for half of the production lines and Design B for the other half,what is the coefficient of variation of your investment?

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Definitions:

Seasonal Variation

Fluctuations in data that occur at regular intervals because of seasonal factors.

Time Series

A sequence of data points, measured typically at successive times, spaced at uniform time intervals.

Fluctuations

Variations or changes in a state or level, often referring to economics or financial markets, but also applicable to any variable phenomenon.

Smoothing Constants

Parameters used in time series analysis to control the level of smoothing applied to the data.