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Past exam of the MSc in advanced computer science course of the University of Oxford 2023 Computational game theory 1 a Solution by
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Under the expected utility hypothesis, use positive affine uniqueness of affine preference representations to normalize the extreme outcomes to and . The stated indifference relations then giveThe two lotteries have expected utilitiesHence , with normalized expected utility difference . Equivalently, substitution reduces them to lotteries with probabilities and of the better extreme outcome. The inference uses the independence axiom for lottery preferences; the three displayed outcome comparisons alone would not determine preferences over all compound lotteries without the expected utility hypothesis.
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