EJ has plans to open some pizza restaurants, but he is not sure how many to open. He has prepared a payoff table to help analyze the situation. ALTERNATIVE HIGH DEMAND  LOW DEMAND Open 2  400,000 -250,000 Open 1 50,000 -20,000 Do Nothing 0 0 EJ decided to use the criterion of realism in his analysis. For what range of value of α will EJ decide to do nothing? to open 1 restaurant? to open 2 restaurants?

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EJ has plans to open some pizza restaurants, but he is not sure how many to open. He has prepared a payoff table to help analyze the situation.

ALTERNATIVE

HIGH DEMAND 

LOW DEMAND

Open 2 

400,000

-250,000

Open 1

50,000

-20,000

Do Nothing

0

0

EJ decided to use the criterion of realism in his analysis. For what range of value of α will EJ decide to do nothing? to open 1 restaurant? to open 2 restaurants?

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