Question: Assume that the third period ( W e d n e s d a y ) requirement i s not known for certain. I t

Assume that the third period (Wednesday) requirement is not known for certain. It could be either 3000or9000. This won't be known until after Tuesday's transaction has been made. Therefore the withdrawal schedule can be changed for Wednesday through Sunday, after Tuesday, and upon learning the real demand for Wednesday.
The primary question is what is the "best decision" in period 1- what should the withdrawal beon Monday? And what kind of errors are involved with making the wrong assumption about the demand for cash on Wednesday. If you make the wrong decision, how much could this "mistake" cost you? This is not simply a question of running an optimization of the two situations.
Determine the best withdrawal schedule - which can include a change in the original plan. Determine also the percent error of making a decision based on one of the two possible options for Wednesday's demand.
Hint: Notice that the objective function value is different for the two scenario optimal solutions, so determining the error is based on the two scenarios.

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