Question: . Putting it all together: Jim has mean variance utility with A=2. He has paid $40 to play a coin toss game where, if heads

. Putting it all together: Jim has mean variance utility with A=2. He has paid $40 to play a coin toss game where, if heads is flipped, Jim receives $100, if tails Jim receives 0.

a. What is the expected return of Jim's gamble? (in percent, rounded to the nearest percent)

I wrote 50

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b. The standard deviation of the gamble is 125% (1.25). How happy is Jim in utiles taking this gamble?

I wrote 2.23

Use the mean-variance utility function. Are you squaring Stdev to get variance for the function?

I wrote 20

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c. Nathalie has A=0. What is the max she is willing to pay for the gamble?

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