A Person Is Trying to Decide If He or She

question 4

Multiple Choice

A person is trying to decide if he or she should buy a lottery ticket. The ticket costs $2.00. If the ticket is a winner,the prize would be $1,000. Knowing that winning $1,000 is not a certain outcome (state of nature) ,the person finds that the probability of winning is 0.001. Based on this information,the following payoff table can be constructed: What is the value of perfect information?

• A)$1.00
• B)$0.998
• C)$1.998
• D)Cannot be computed

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Definitions:

Emancipated

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Cosign

To sign a legal document alongside another person, often agreeing to share the responsibility for fulfilling the terms of the document, such as repaying a loan.

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