SCENARIO 19-6
a Student Wanted to Find Out the Optimal

question 4

Short Answer

SCENARIO 19-6
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 mean amount of time he needed to study every
week 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. $$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | l | } \hline & 16 \text { hours } & 8 \text { hours } & 4 \text { hours } \\\hline \text { Easy Exam } & 40 & 60 & 80 \\\hline \text { Difficult Exam } & 100 & 50 & 0 \\\hline\end{array}$$
-Referring to Scenario 19-6, what is the opportunity loss of spending 4 hours per week on average
studying for the exam when the exam turns out to be easy?

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Definitions:

Depreciation Method

A systematic approach used to allocate the depreciable amount of an asset over its useful life, such as straight-line or declining balance methods.

Depletion

The systematic allocation of the cost of natural resources over the period of their extraction and sale.

Natural Resource

Materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain.

Depreciable Asset

An asset that loses value over time due to usage, wear and tear, or obsolescence, which can be an expense on the income statement over its useful life.