Dennis and Denise Are Trying to Decide Whether to Go

question 124

Multiple Choice

Dennis and Denise are trying to decide whether to go hiking or biking this weekend. Depending on their choices, they might go together or they might go apart. Their payoffs in terms of their happiness are as follows. There exists a mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium when Dennis chooses hiking with a probability of ____.

• A) 3/4
• B) 2/3
• C) 1/2
• D) 1/4

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