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Old 10-22-2007, 09:20 PM
ItalianFX ItalianFX is offline
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Default Re: Econ HW - Expected Value

How about this question:

A fair coin is flipped twice and the following payoffs are assigned to each of the four possible outcomes:

H-H: win 20, H-T: win 9, T-H: lose 7, T-T: lose 16.

What is the expected value of this gamble?

I'm thinking I know how to do this one, but I'm also thinking it's harder than I am figuring it to be.
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