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Transcribed Image Text:An electronics factory operates on four production lines: laptops, mobiles, desktop
computers, smart boards, and there were three cases of demand (weak, medium,
and high), and the matrix of returns was as follows:
Laptops
Mobiles
Risk
Desktop Computers
Smart Boards
High
40
45
35
30
Economic state
Medium
25
15
30
20
1. The problem presented above is decision-making under
Certainty
Uncertainty
Weak
10
5
-10
-5
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