Consider the Following to Answer the Question(s) Below

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Essay

Consider the following to answer the question(s) below:
A landowner is considering a community development project. Even though he realizes that the current market for housing is not very favourable, he believes that there will be an influx of retirees into the area within the next five years. He is trying to decide between two alternatives: (1) building detached homes in a planned retirement community or (2) building a smaller townhouse/condominium complex. Mortgage interest rates will affect his outcomes and the applicable payoff (in $ millions) table is shown below.
-What is the expected value of perfect information?

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A statistic that measures the dispersion or variability in a dataset relative to its mean, indicating how spread out the numbers are.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by dividing the sum of these values by the number of values.

Standard Deviations

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much individual data points differ from the mean.