Consider a lottery with three possible outcomes:
  • $125 will be received with probability 0.2
  • $100 will be received with probability 0.3
  • $50 will be received with probability 0.5

a.   What is the expected value of the lottery?

b.   What is the variance of the outcomes?.

c.   What would a risk-neutral person pay to play the lottery?

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