Question: Huntz food is attempting to decide if it should introduce a new line of salad dressings called special choices. The company can test market the dressings in selected geographical areas or bypass the test market and introduce the product nationally. The cost of the test market is $150,000. If the company conducts the test market, it must wait to see the results before deciding whether or not to introduce the salad dressing nationally. The probability of a positive test market result is estimated to be 0.6. Alternatively, the company cant conduct the test market and make the decision to introduce the dressings or not. If the salad dressings are introduced nationally and are a success, the company estimates it will realize an annual profit of $1,600,000 while if the dressings fail it will incur a loss of $700,000. The company believes the probability of success for the salad dressings is 0.50 if it is introduced without the test market. If the company does conduct the the test market and its positive, the probability of successfully introducing the salad dressings increases to 0.8. If the test market is negative and the company introduces the salad dressings anyway, the probability of success drops to 0.30.

Using a decision tree analysis, determine if the company should conduct the test market.