A consensus of experts has agreed on the following table of potential NPVs and their likelihoods for a capital budgeting project that involves considerable uncertainty and is therefore risky:
PROBABIlITY NPV ($thousands)
0.15 (300)
0.35 (50)
0.45 500
0.05 1,200
a) Find the expected NPV
b) Measure the risk of this project using the usual statistical summary for this purpose. Name of the measure: and its numeric value: