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

question 47

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 opportunity loss of spending 4 hours per week on average studying for the exam when the exam turns out to be easy?

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Definitions:

Net Operating Income

The total profit of a business after subtracting operating expenses but before deducting taxes and interest.

Customers Served

The number of unique clients or customers that a business has provided products or services to within a specific period.

Variance

The difference between planned or expected results and actual results in financial and operational metrics.

Budgeting

The process of creating a plan to spend your money, creating an estimate of revenues and expenses over a specified period.