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

question 40

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,what is the return-to-risk ratio of spending 8 hours per week on average studying for the exam?

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Definitions:

Investments in Assets

The allocation of financial resources into physical or intangible items that are expected to produce future benefit.

Revenues

The sum of revenue a company earns from selling products or providing services in a given timeframe.

Decentralized

Refers to the distribution of functions, powers, people, or things away from a central location or authority.

Consolidated

Combined financial statements that present the assets, liabilities, and operating results of parent companies and their subsidiaries as a single entity.