Patagonia, designer of outdoor clothing and sports equipment, is planning to introduce a new brand of ski jackets: Ultra lite and Feather lite. The probabilities for the various possible states of nature associated with these two new products and the expected payoffs for each combination of decision and states of nature are provided in the decision tree diagram in Figure F.11. Determine the new jacket ski that will have the highest expected payoff.

Figure F.11

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20 0.1 0.7 60 0.2 100 15 0.1 0.7 80 0.5 2 0.2 120 -20 0.1 Ultra Lite 0.7 140 2 0.2 200 0.1 Feather Lite -100 2 0.2 0.7 30 0.2 80 0.5 0.1 2 70 0.7 0.3 100 0.2 170 2 0.1 -200 0.7 0.2 280 0.2 0.3