Given the Following Data on Two One Period Capital Projects

question 6

Essay

Given the following data on two one period capital projects, calculate 1) the expected value of each project's cash flows and 2) the standard deviation of probable cash flows from each project. Indicate which of the two projects would be chosen by a risk-averse decision maker if their prices were the same and they had similar lives.

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