Meega airlines decided to offer direct service from Akron, Ohio to Clearwater Beach, Florida. Management...

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Meega airlines decided to offer direct service from Akron, Ohio to Clearwater Beach, Florida. Management must decide between full-price service using the companys new fleet of jet aircraft and a discount-service using smaller capacity commuter planes. Management developed estimates of the contribution to profit for each type of service based upon three possible levels of demand for service: high, moderate, and low. The following table shows the estimated quarterly profits (in thousands of dollars).

Service

Demand for service

High

Medium

Low

Full price

900

760

450

Discount

720

650

350

The probabilities for the demand levels are P(High) = 0.2, P(Medium) = 0.5, and P(Low) = 0.3, respectively.

Using the expected value approach, what is the recommended decision?

What is the expected value of perfect information (in thousands of dollars)?

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