A Family Business Is Considering Making an Investment in Its

question 13

Multiple Choice

A family business is considering making an investment in its manufacturing operation.Three decisions are under consideration: (1) a large investment; (2) a medium investment;and (3) a small investment.The business believes that there are three possible future outcomes for its product: (1) increasing demand; (2) stable demand;and (3) decreasing demand.The business believes that the probability for increasing,stable and decreasing product demand are 0.4,0.5,and 0.1,respectively.The following payoff table describes the decision situation.

The expected value for the medium investment decision is

• A)$600,000
• B)$540,000
• C)$330,000
• D)$165,000

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Definitions:

Non-directional Null Hypothesis

A type of null hypothesis that specifies there will be no change or difference without stating a direction of change.

Standard Error

A statistical measure that quantifies the amount of variability in a sample mean compared to the population mean, used to gauge the precision of the sample mean.

Sampling Distribution

A statistical distribution of all possible samples' statistics taken from a population.

Probability

A measure of the likelihood of a given event occurring, expressed as a number between 0 (impossible) and 1 (certain).