SCENARIO 5-2 Two Different Designs on a New Line of Winter Jackets

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Essay

SCENARIO 5-2
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 5-2, if you decide to choose Design A for half of the production lines and
Design B for the other half, what is the risk of your investment?

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