TABLE 17-6
a Student Wanted to Find Out the Optimal

question 109

Short Answer

TABLE 17-6
A student wanted to find out the optimal strategy to study for a Business Statistics exam. He constructed the following payoff table based on the average amount of time he needed to put in every week studying for the course and the degree of difficulty of the exam. From the information that he gathered from students who had taken the course, he concluded that there was a 40% probability that the exam would be easy.
$$\begin{array} { | l | c | c | c | } \hline & \text { 16 hours } & 8 \text { hours } & \text { 4 hours } \\\hline \text { Easy Exam } & 40 & 60 & 80 \\\hline \text { Difficult Exam } & 100 & 50 & 0 \\\hline\end{array}$$
-Referring to Table 17-6, what is the expected monetary value of spending 8 hours per week on average studying for the exam?

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Direct Materials Cost

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Work in Process

Inventory consisting of items that are in the production process but are not yet completed.

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Manufacturing Overhead

Indirect factory-related costs that are incurred when producing a product, such as utilities, depreciation, and salaries of maintenance personnel.