Assume That Kinston Has the Ability to Ignore the Pilot

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Essay

Assume that Kinston has the ability to ignore the pilot production and test marketing and to go ahead and build their manufacturing plant immediately and that the probability of high or low demand would still be 50%.What is the value of the the option to do pilot production and test marketing?

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