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

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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 expected monetary value criterion is to study 16 hours per week on average for the exam.

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Average Fixed Cost

The fixed costs of production (costs that do not vary with output) divided by the quantity of output produced.

Economic Profit

The disparity between the aggregate income and the sum of all expenses, encompassing both direct and indirect costs.

Weekly Operating Profits

The profit a company makes from its operations in a week, excluding non-operational revenues and expenses.

Market Price

The current price at which a good or service can be bought or sold in a particular market.