The director of social services of a county has learned that the state has mandated additional information requirements. This will place an additional burden on the agency. The director has identified three acceptable alternatives to handle the increased workload. One alternative is to reassign present staff members, the second is to hire and train two new workers, and the third is to redesign current practice so that workers can readily collect the information with little additional effort. An unknown factor is the caseload for the coming year when the new data will be collected on a trial basis. The estimated costs for various options and caseloads are shown in the following table: CASELOAD Moderate High Very High Reassign staff $60+ 70 80 New staff 65 65 65 Redesign 40 collection 50 60 "Cost in $ thousands. After contemplating the caseload question, the director of social services has decided that reasonable caseload probabilities are 0.30 for moderate, 0.40 for high, and 0.30 for very high. a. Which alternative will yield the minimum expected cost? O Reassign ONew Staff O Redesign b. Determine the expected value of perfect information using an opportunity loss table. (Round your answers to the nearest whole number. Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "O" wherever required.) Reassign New Staff Redesign Opportunity loss table Moderate($) High($) Very High($) EOL(S) (0.30) (0.40) (0.30) Expected value of perfect information The director of social services of a county has learned that the state has mandated additional information requirements. This will place an additional burden on the agency. The director has identified three acceptable alternatives to handle the increased workload. One alternative is to reassign present staff members, the second is to hire and train two new workers, and the third is to redesign current practice so that workers can readily collect the information with little additional effort. An unknown factor is the caseload for the coming year when the new data will be collected on a trial basis. The estimated costs for various options and caseloads are shown in the following table: Moderate CASELOAD High Very High Reassign staff $50* 60 85 New staff 60 60 60 Redesign collection 40 50 90 "Cost in $ thousands. After contemplating the caseload question, the director of social services has decided that reasonable caseload probabilities are 0.10 for moderate, 0.30 for high, and 0.60 for very high. a. Which alternative will yield the minimum expected cost? O Reassign O Redesign New Staff b. Determine the expected value of perfect information using an opportunity loss table. (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.) Reassign New Staff Redesign Opportunity loss table Moderate High Very High EOL (0.10) (0.30) (0.60) Expected value of perfect information