SCENARIO 20-6 a Student Wanted to Find Out the Optimal Strategy to Strategy

question 110

True/False

SCENARIO 20-6
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.
-True or False: Referring to Scenario 20-6, the optimal strategy using the maximin criterion is to
study 16 hours per week on average for the exam.

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