Planning a major investment


Rotter Partners is planning a major investment.  A probabilistic estimate gives the following distribution(in millions of dollars):

  

Profit

  
  

1

  
  

1.5

  
  

2

  
  

3

  
  

10

  
  

Probability

  
  

.3

  
  

.2

  
  

.2

  
  

.2

  
  

?

  

a)  Find the missing probability.

b)  Find the mean and standard deviation.

c)  What is the expected value of the profit? (Hint: use part b)

d)  Is it unusual to have a profit of 10 million dollars?

e)  Use probabilities to determine whether having a profit of 1.5 million dollars is an unusually low number.

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