Alan and Beatrice have broken the rules and colluded in their coursework assignment, so the examiners are going to interview them. The interviews are taking place simultaneously and there is no communication allowed between the two. The students can either deny or confess to have colluded. The raw marks without penalty are 65 for Alan and 70 for Beatrice. The examiners have decided on the following scheme: if they both deny they will still be penalised by 20 marks respectively, if one denies and the other confesses then the denying student gets zero marks while the confessing student retains their raw mark, and if they both confess, then they both get the pass mark of 40. The possible outcomes are summarised in the table below. Based on this information read the following statements and select the correct one.
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Alan and Beatrice have broken the rules and colluded in their coursework assignment, so the examiners are going to interview them. The interviews are taking place simultaneously and there is no communication allowed between the two. The students can either deny or confess to have colluded. The raw marks without penalty are 65 for Alan and 70 for Beatrice. The examiners have decided on the following scheme: if they both deny they will still be penalised by 20 marks respectively, if one denies and the other confesses then the denying student gets zero marks while the confessing student retains their raw mark, and if they both confess, then they both get the pass mark of 40. The possible outcomes are summarised in the table below. Based on this information read the following statements and select the correct one.

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Accepted Answer

The examiners have managed to devise a scheme in which the students will definitely confess.

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Confessing is the dominated strategy.

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It is in the interest of the students to deviate from the dominant strategy equilibrium.

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The dominant strategy equilibrium will result in the highest aggregate mark.

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