Nick Has Plans to Open Some Pizza Restaurants, but He

question 96

Multiple Choice

Nick has plans to open some pizza restaurants, but he is not sure how many to open. He has prepared a payoff table to help analyze the situation. Nick believes there is a 40 percent chance that the market will be good, a 30 percent chance that it will be fair, and a 30 percent chance that it will be poor. A market research firm will analyze market conditions and will provide a perfect forecast (they provide a money back guarantee) . What is the most that should be paid for this forecast?

• A) $ 44,000
• B) $ 53,000
• C) $123,000
• D) $176,000
• E) $132,000

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Conversion

The process of changing or converting resources into finished goods or services.

Equivalent Units

A concept used in cost accounting to convert the amount of work done on partially finished goods into the number of fully finished units.

Weighted-average

A method used in accounting and finance to calculate an average that takes into account the varying degrees of importance of the numbers in the dataset.

Conversion

The process of changing raw materials into finished goods, or the conversion of currencies, data, or resources from one form to another.