Ray Crofford Is Evaluating Investment Alternatives to Invest $100,000 Which

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Ray Crofford is evaluating investment alternatives to invest $100,000 which he inherited from his grandfather. His investment advisor has identified four alternatives and constructed the following payoff table which shows expected profits (in $10,000's) for various market conditions. If Ray uses the Hurwicz criterion with alpha = 0.5,the appropriate choice is ______.

• A) T-Bills
• B) Stocks
• C) Bonds
• D) Mixture
• E) None

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