The phrase "and decided to exploit" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a choice made to take advantage of a situation or resource for personal gain or benefit.
Example: "After analyzing the market trends, the company recognized an opportunity and decided to exploit it for increased profits."
Alternatives: "and chose to take advantage" or "and opted to utilize".
Evidently, Arsene Wenger had noticed that the visitors left space out wide and decided to exploit it.
Or, like so many exiles, he could have shifted gears and decided to exploit the mess as a profiteering politician or businessman — there were offers.
Sinn Fein saw Trimble make decommissioning the condition for progress - in effect granting the IRA a veto - and decided to exploit that advantage for all it was worth.
Singer says Sun "woke up" and decided to exploit the resource it had in Solaris on x86.
Trump understood this and decided to exploit it.
Here we show that osteoblast cultured in basement membrane matrix (Matrigel™) exhibits significant morphological changes after ten days of culture, and we decided to exploit this situation to investigate the molecular mechanisms responsible for guiding osteoblast morphological transitions.
Although the Beatles had yet to tour the United States, the group's popularity in Britain was phenomenal, and United Artists decided to exploit it by putting out a cheaply made film as a pretext for a soundtrack album.
He went on, "He's very cunning and [he] has decided to exploit the law concerning libel and defamation to cloak himself.
Instead of focusing on the real emergency of poverty, the president and his enablers have decided to exploit a racist lie that people from Spanish-speaking countries are the greatest threat to this nation.
So instead of trying to prevent it, Srini Devadas, an electrical engineering professor at MIT and the founder and chief technology officer at Verayo, decided to exploit it.
As if the heated debate over the proposed Islamic Community Center two blocks from Ground Zero wasn't controversial and divisive enough, Donald Trump has decided to exploit the situation in a pathetic attempt for attention while ratcheting up the inflammatory rhetoric.
