A Bakery Makes Fresh Donuts Every Morning

question 44

True/False

A bakery makes fresh donuts every morning.If any are left at the end of the day they are donated to a homeless shelter.The number of donuts that can be sold each day is uncertain and the bakery must decide early each morning,how many donuts to make that day.The bakery has created the following payoff table to summarize the situation. It estimates the following probabilities for the respective levels of demand. If the bakery had perfect information about that day's demand,the expected value under certainty is 275.

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