EBK INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS AND ITS
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Chapter 4.3, Problem 3MQ
To determine
To evaluate: Whether preferring basketball to soccer would offer the same expected value if a single gamble will decide the best team along with the reason behind choice specified would offer the same expected value even though the preferred choice is lower at risk.
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1. The most ideal method of evaluating whether an investment is profitable or not is to compute the number of years one can recover the investment.
2. If the profitability index is greater than zero, the investment is acceptable.
3. Consumers and producers may not be able to come up with optimal decisions if there is an incomplete information.
The following payoff table provides profits based on various posible decision alternativesand various levels of demand at Kmart Print Shop.
Alternatives
Low
High
Alternative 1
10,000
30,000
Alternative 2
5,000
40,000
Alternative 3
-2,000
50,000
The probability of low demand is 0.4, whereas the probability of high demand is 0.6.What is the highest possible expected monetary value?
We consider the following decision problem, with 4 decisions di,i∈{1,…,4}, and four possible outcomes ωi,i∈{1,…,4}, with the following table of profits:
ω1
ω2
ω3
ω4
d1
30
30
0
30
d2
20
20
20
20
d3
0
50
10
40
d4
15
30
10
25
Which decision should be chosen for rewards depending on four different possible outcomes, according to the maximin rule, maximax rule, and optimism-pessimism rule with α<1/3?
Chapter 4 Solutions
EBK INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS AND ITS
Ch. 4.1 - Prob. 1MQCh. 4.1 - Prob. 2MQCh. 4.1 - Prob. 3MQCh. 4.2 - Prob. 1TTACh. 4.2 - Prob. 2TTACh. 4.2 - Prob. 1MQCh. 4.3 - Prob. 1TTACh. 4.3 - Prob. 2TTACh. 4.3 - Prob. 1MQCh. 4.3 - Prob. 2MQ
Ch. 4.3 - Prob. 3MQCh. 4.3 - Prob. 1.1TTACh. 4.3 - Prob. 1.2TTACh. 4.3 - Prob. 2.1TTACh. 4.3 - Prob. 2.2TTACh. 4.3 - Prob. 1.1MQCh. 4.3 - Prob. 2.1MQCh. 4.3 - Prob. 3.1MQCh. 4.4 - Prob. 1TTACh. 4.4 - Prob. 2TTACh. 4 - Prob. 1RQCh. 4 - Prob. 2RQCh. 4 - Prob. 3RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4RQCh. 4 - Prob. 5RQCh. 4 - Prob. 6RQCh. 4 - Prob. 7RQCh. 4 - Prob. 8RQCh. 4 - Prob. 9RQCh. 4 - Prob. 10RQCh. 4 - Prob. 4.1PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.2PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.3PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.4PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.5PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.6PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.7PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.8PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.9PCh. 4 - Prob. 4.10P
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