Suppose maria prefers to buy a bond with a 7% expected return and 2% standard deviation of its expected return, while jennifer prefers to buy a bond with a 4% expected return and 1% standard deviation of its expected return. can you tell if maria is more or less risk-averse than jennifer?
a. maria is less risk-averse than jennifer because maria is choosing a bond with higher standard deviation.
b. maria is more risk-averse than jennifer because maria is choosing a bond with lower volatility of its expected return.
c. there is not enough information to tell. in order to decide whether maria or jennifer is more risk averse, one will need to compare two bonds with the same expected return and different standard deviations of their expected returns.

Intronix uses copy editors, computer graphics specialists, and java programmers to produce ads for magazines and the internet. the average new ad for magazines typically requires 180 hours of a copy editor's time and 135 hours of a computer graphics specialist's time, whereas ads produced for the internet require 35 hours of copy editor time, 195 hours of computer graphics time, and 60 hours of a java programmer's time. lassie food, a dog food manufacturer, has hired intronix to produce ads in the next four week. although currently it considers magazine ads 3 times more valuable than internet ads, it still wishes to have at least 2 of each produced within the next four weeks. intronix has assigned up to 3 copy editors, 4 computer graphics specialists, and 1 java programmer, each committed to work up to 70 hours per week on the project. how many of each type of ad should be produced to maximize the overall value to lassie foods

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