TABLE 19-6 a Student Wanted to Find Out the Optimal Strategy to Strategy

question 114

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TABLE 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.

-Referring to Table 19-6, the optimal strategy using the return-to-risk ratio criterion is to study 8 hours per week on average for the exam.

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Definitions:

Median

The middle value of a data set, where half the numbers are below and half are above this value.

Mean

The average of a set of numbers, calculated by summing all the numbers and then dividing by the count of those numbers.

Frequency Distribution

A summary of data showing how often each value occurs.

Mean

The average value obtained by dividing the sum of all values in a data set by the number of values.