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An automobiles company’s annual sales of its small cars depends on the state of the economy as well as on whether the company uses some high profile individual as its brand ambassador in advertisements of its product. The state of the economy is “good”, “okay” and “bad” with probabilities 0.3, 0.4 and 0.3 respectively. The company may choose a high profile individual as its brand ambassador in TV ads or may go for the TV ads without a high profile brand ambassador.
If the company fixes price at Rs. 3.5 lakh, the annual sales of its small cars for different states of the economy and for different kinds of TV ads are summarized in table 1. The figures in the first row are annual sales of the small cars when the company uses a high profile individual as its brand ambassador in its TV ads and the ones in the second row are that when the company does not use any brand ambassador in TV ads, for different states of the economy.
Table 1:
Without knowing what exactly will be the state of the company in the coming one year, the company will either have to sign a TV ad contract with some high profile individual, who will be the company’s brand ambassador for its small car for the next one year, or go for a TV ad without featuring any high profile individual. It incurs a cost of Rs. 3.45 lakh (excluding the payment to the brand ambassador) to put a car on the road.
When the company’s profit is uncertain, the company makes decisions on basis of its expected profit. If the company can earn a profit xi with probability pi (the probability depends on the state of economy), then the expected profit of the company is $$\sum_1XiPi$$
Mr. Khan a popular film actor, agrees to sign the contract to become the company’s brand ambassador for Rs. 9 crore. The cost to the company of putting a car on the road also got escalated. The maximum escalation in cost of putting a car on the road, for which the company can afford to sign the contract with Mr.Khan is
Expected profit when brand ambassador is used = (3.5 - 3.45)[100000 × 0.3 + 80000 × 0.4 + 50000 × 0.3] lakh = 0.05lakh*77000= 3850 lakh
Expected profit when brand ambassador is not used = (3.5 - 3.45)[80000 × 0.3 + 50000 × 0.4 + 30000 × 0.3] lakh =0.05lakh*53000= 2650 lakh
Difference = (3850 - 2650) = 1200 lakh = 12 crore.
When profit is Rs.12.0 crores when Mr. Khan Advertises for the company.
Then profit is (12.0 - 9.0) = Rs.3 crore
No. of cars sold when Mr. khan advertises = [100000 × 0.3 + 80000 × 0.4 + 50000 × 0.3]= 77000
No. of cars sold when no popular actor is for advertisement= [80000 × 0.3 + 50000 × 0.4 + 30000 × 0.3]=53000
No of extra vehicles sold due to Mr. Khan= 24000
Suppose p is the amount escalated in cost of putting a car on the road,
24000p = 3,00,00,000
p = Rs1250
Had the cost not been increased, the company would have a extra profit of Rs. 1250 due to brand ambassador.
So, this the maximum escalation for which the company can afford signing contract with Mr. Khan.
Hence, option C is the correct answer.
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