Question: - Each week she must decide how many flowers to make. A knitted flower can be sold for ( $ 1 2 .

- Each week she must decide how many flowers to make. A knitted flower can be sold for \(\$ 12.50\).
- She prefers not to store more than 8 flowers at her home at any point in time.
- Each week there is \(10\%\) chance one customer wants to buy a flower, a \(25\%\) chance she sees a demand of 2 flowers, a \(35\%\) chance she sees a demand of 3 flowers, a \(10\%\) chance she sees a demand of 4 flowers, and a \(20\%\) chance no customers are interested in buying her flowers.
- She never sees a demand of more than 4 flowers in any given week. If she has no flowers when a customer comes, the customer leaves without buying flowers.
- On those woeks that she chooses to make flowers, she must pay a total fixed cost of \(\$ 15\) for renting the space to make the flowers. In addition, it costs her \(\$ 8\) to make one flower.
- Flowers not sold at the end of the day can be donated to charity for \$3 tax credit.
- Formulate this problem as a Markov decision process, in which the objective is to maximize the total expected income over the next 3 weeks (assume there are only 3 woeks left before the farmer's market closes for the winter). Clearly indicate the 5 basic components of this MDP.
- Update: Both of the following interpretations are acceptable:
(a) Flowers not sold at the end of the three weeks can be donated to charity for \(\$ 3\) tax credit.
(b) Flowers not sold at the end of every week can be donated to charity for \(\$ 3\) tax credit.
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