Suppose that a person has a lottery ticket from which she will win X dollars, where X

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Suppose that a person has a lottery ticket from which she will win X dollars, where X has the uniform distribution on the interval [0, 4]. Suppose also that the person’s utility function is U(x) = xα for x ≥ 0, where α is a given positive constant. For how many dollars x0 would the person be willing to sell this lottery ticket?
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Probability And Statistics

ISBN: 9780321500465

4th Edition

Authors: Morris H. DeGroot, Mark J. Schervish

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