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Specialty toys, inc sells a variety of new and innovative children's toys. management learned that the preholiday season is the best time to introduce a new toy, because many families use this time to look for a new ideas for december holiday gifts. when specialty discovers a new toy with good market potential, it chooses an october market entry date. in order to get toys in its stores by october, specialty places one-time orders with its manufacturers in june or july of each year. demand for children's toys can be highly volatile. if a new toy catches on, a sense of shortage in the marketplace often increases the demand to high levels and large profits can be realized. however, new toys can also flop, leaving specialty stuck with high levels of inventory that must be sold at reduced prices. the most important question the company faces is deciding how may units of new toy should be purchased to meet anticipated sales demand. if too few are purchased, sales will be lost: if to many ar purchased, profits will be reduced because of low prices realized in clearance sales. for the coming season, specialty plans to introduce a new product called weather teddy. this variation of a talking teddy bear is made by a company in taiwan. when a child presses teddy's hand, the bear begins to talk. a built-in barometer selects one of five responses that predict the weather conditions. the responses range from "it looks to be a very nice day! have fun" to "i think it may rain today don't forget your umbrella". test with the product show that , even though it is not a perfect weather predictor, its predictions are surprisely good. several of specialty's managers claimed teddy gave predictions of weather that were as good as many local television weather forecasters. as with other products, specialty faces the decision of how many weather teddy units to order for the coming holiday season. different members of the mangement team suggested order quantities of 15,000, 18,000, 24,000 or 28,000 units. the wide range of order quantities suggested indicates considerable disagreement concerning the market potential. the product management team asks you for an analysis of the stock-out probabilities for various order quantities, an estimate of the profit potential, and to make an order quantity recommendation. specialty expects to sell weather teddy for $24 based on a cost of $16 per unit. if inventory remains after the holiday season, specialty will sell all surplus inventory for $5 per unit. after reviewing the salses history of similar products, specialty's senior sales forecaster predicted an expected demand of 20,000 unites with a .95 probability that demand would be between 10,000 units and 30,000 units. one of specialty's managers felt that the profit potential was so great that the order quanity should have a 70% chance of meeting demand and only a 30% chance of any stock-outs. what quantity would be ordered under this policy, and what is the projected profit under the three sales scenarios?

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