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

question 44

Essay

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 the standard deviation of your profit when Design A is chosen?

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