The following notice appeared in the golf shop at a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, golf course. Blackmoor
Question:
The following notice appeared in the golf shop at a Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, golf course.
Blackmoor Golf Club Members
The golf shop is holding a raffle to win a
TaylorMade R9 10.58 Regular Flex Driver ($300 value).
Tickets are $5.00 each.
Only 80 tickets will be sold.
Please see the golf shop to get your tickets!
John Underpar buys a ticket.
a. What are Mr. Underpar’s possible monetary outcomes?
b. What are the probabilities of the possible outcomes?
c. Summarize Mr. Underpar’s “experiment” as a probability distribution.
d. What is the mean or expected value of the probability distribution? Explain your result.
e. If all 80 tickets are sold, what is the expected return to the Club?
The expected return is the profit or loss an investor anticipates on an investment that has known or anticipated rates of return (RoR). It is calculated by multiplying potential outcomes by the chances of them occurring and then totaling these...
Step by Step Answer:
Statistical Techniques in Business and Economics
ISBN: 978-0078020520
16th edition
Authors: Douglas Lind, William Marchal