Suppose that the weather forecast indicates a 10% chance that cold weather will reduce the citrus grower’s profit from $100,000 to $85,000 and a 10% chance that cold weather will reduce the profit to $75,000. Should the grower spend $5000 to protect the citrus fruit against the possible bad weather?

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We can think in this situation as:

There is 10% (or a probability equal to 0.1) where the citrus grower's profit will be reduced by $15,000

There is 10% (or a probability equal to 0.1) where the citrus grower's profit will be reduced by $25,000

And in the remaining 80% (or a probability equal to 0.8), the profit does not change.

Then the expected value for the total profit can be written as:

EV = $100,000 + ( 0.1*(-$15,000) + 0.1*(-$25,000) + 0.8*$0)

     =  $96,000

In the case where the citrus grower spends $5000 to protect the fruits against possible bad weather, there is a 100% that is profit will not change, but he must pay $5,000

Then his profit will be:

P = $100,000 - $5,000 = $95,000

So in this case, the profit is $1000 less than the expected profit in the prior case. So the scenario where he does not buy the protection has a larger expected profit, which may mean that is better to not buy it (in a straight mathematical point of view)

One also could think that  the values are really close together, so buying the protection does not mean a big change, and increases the security


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x = 1

Replace x with 1, and evaluate the right side.

y = 2 * 1 + 5 = 2 + 5 = 7

Ordered pair: (1, 7)

x = 2

Replace x with 2, and evaluate the right side.

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Ordered pair: (2, 9)

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Ordered pair: (3, 11)

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Ordered pair: (4, 13)

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y=2+5=7. (1,7)

2(3) + 5
y=6+5= 11. (3,11)

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y=4+5=9. (2,9)

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Step-by-step explanation:

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