Question: Army A has a single plane with which it can strike one of three possible targets. Army B has one anti-aircraft gun that can be

  1. Army A has a single plane with which it can strike one of three possible targets. Army B has one anti-aircraft gun that can be assigned to one of the targets in defence. Army A wishes to maximize the expected value of the damage and army B wishes to minimize it.

The value of target k for each player is vk, with v1>v2>v3>0. Note: For simplicity assume v1=1, v2=2 and v3=3 for each player.

Army A can destroy a target only if the target is undefended and A attacks it. In this case the payoffs will be (vk, - vk) respectively for Players A and B. If B successfully defends a target, the payoffs are 0 for each player.

Formulate the situation as a strategic game and solve for all Nash equilibrium/ia.

Hint: Army A has 3 strategies: Attack 1, Attack 2, and Attack 3. Army B has 3 strategies: Defend 1, Defend 2, and Defend 3.

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  1. Consider the games depicted below. Player 2 knows which game is being played but player 1 does not. Player 1 believes that with probability 3/4 Game 1 is being played. Solve for all pure Bayes Nash equilibria.

1\2

L

R

1\2

L

R

U

2,1

2,3

U

6,9

-10,-5

D

-1,2

-2,1

D

7,-10

14,5

Game 1

Game2

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