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An individual owns two assets: an initial wealth of $20, and a lottery ticket which will pay a prize of $10 with probability 0.5 and nothing with probability 0.5.
Find the minimum price at which the individual is willing sell his lottery ticket if his utility function is:
a. u(x) = x
b. u(x) = x2
c. How do you reconcile the difference between the answers found for (a) and (b)?
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