calculating profit and loss

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A large manufacturing company has had a very difficult time for the last couple of years in the market itoperates.Its Board of Directors must now decide whether or not a new factory should be built and the size of the factory.The MD of the company suggests that the company should conduct a market survey to gauge how the marketwill react to the product that the company intends launching.The research department has provided the following information:P(favourable selling conditions) = 0.55P(favourable market research/favourable selling conditions) = 0.75P(unfavourable market research/unfavourable selling conditions) = 0.80It is estimated that a large factory under favourable selling conditions will realize a profit of $300000, but willsuffer a loss of $200000 under unfavourable selling conditions. In addition, it is estimated that a smallfactorywill realizea profit of $200000 if selling conditions are favourable, but will suffer a loss of $120000 underunfavourable selling conditions. The cost of conducting market research will amount to $10000, which is nottaken into account when calculating profit and loss.With the aid of a labeled decision tree, determine the optimal course of action the company should take.Show details of your calculations.

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