The owner of the Columbia Construction Company must decide between building a housing development, constructing a shopping center, and leasing all the company’s equipment to another company. The profit that will result from each alternative will be determined by whether material costs remain stable or increase. The profit from each alternative, given the two possibilities for material costs, is shown in the following payoff table:

Material Costs Decision Stable Increase Houses $ 70,000 $30,000 Shopping center 105,000 20,000 Leasing 40,000 40,000 Determine the best decision, using the following decision criteria.

a. Maximax

b. Maximin

c. Minimax regret

d. Hurwicz 1a = .22

e. Equal likelihood LO.1