You Have Been Given (At No Cost to You) One

question 93

Essay

You have been given (at no cost to you) one ticket for a raffle with a grand prize of $1,000.There are two prizes worth $100 and five prizes worth $20.If you know that only 100 tickets have been distributed, what is the expected value of your winnings?

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Definitions:

Gender Identity

An individual's personal sense of their own gender, which may or may not align with the sex they were assigned at birth.

Emphasized Femininity

Emphasized femininity refers to a set of socially constructed ideas about female behavior that emphasizes traits like submissiveness, empathy, and nurturing, often in relation to male dominance in gender relations.

Hegemonic Masculinity

A concept in sociology that describes the practices that promote the dominant social position of men, and the subordinate social position of women.

Hegemonic Masculinity

A concept that describes the cultural ideal of manhood, which privileges dominance, heterosexuality, authority, and competitiveness.