Instruction 17-1
a Student Wanted to Find Out the Optimal

question 83

Short Answer

Instruction 17-1
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 put in every week studying 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.
$$\begin{array} { | l | l | l | l | } \hline & 16 \text { hours } & 8 \text { hours } & 4 \text { hours } \\\hline \text { Easy Exam } & 40 & 60 & 80 \\\hline \text { Difficult Exam } & 100 & 50 & 0 \\\hline\end{array}$$
-Referring to Instruction 17-1,how many possible courses of action are there?

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Definitions:

After-Tax Earnings

Net income of a business after all taxes have been deducted, indicating the actual profit that remains for shareholders.

Retention Ratio

The proportion of net income that is retained in the company rather than distributed to shareholders as dividends, indicating how much money is reinvested in the business.

Market Price

The rate at which a service or asset can presently be acquired or disposed of in the market.

Book Value

The net value of a company's assets minus its liabilities, often used as an estimate of a company's value if it were to be liquidated.