CIMA Related Exams
P1 Exam
A company is launching a new product.
The company accountant has constructed a payoff table to show the estimated profit at different levels of production and demand.

How many units should the company produce if the minimax regret criterion is applied?
A bakery manager is deciding how many batches of birthday cakes to decorate each day.
Demand for the birthday cakes varies from 12 to 15 batches per day. Each batch decorated and sold earns a contribution of $40 but each batch unsold leads to loss of contribution of $15.
The payoff table below shows the total $ contribution from each of the possibilities:

Based on expected values, the number of batches of birthday cakes the bakery manager should decorate each day is:
A tennis club is considering running an open day to encourage new members and thus increase membership fees. The cost of the open day will be $1,000. Attendance is dependent on the weather. There is a 60% chance of good weather and a 40% chance of poor weather on the open day.
The expected new membership fees are:

What is the expected value of running the open day?
Give your answer as a whole number.