The Vacation Final exams are almost here and once they are done, it will be time to reward myself ...

The Vacation
Final exams are almost here and once they are done, it will be time to reward myself with a well-deserved vacation. As a state employee, I haven't seen a raise since... well, ever. Thus an important criterion, in fact the most important criterion is to find an exotic region that can be visited inexpensively. There are three states of nature that could impact costs in these five areas of interest, and they correspond to the relative strength of the US Dollar against that region's dominant currency. Rather than squander my time doing any actual publishable research, instead I have determined the average cost per day to visit each region under each of the possible states of nature. This table, which should not be construed as actual vacation advice, appears below.

Region	Strong Dollar	Middling Dollar	Weak Dollar
Eastern Europe	33	54	57
Southeast Asia	41	56	36
Australia	45	44	58
Galapagos Islands	37	35	26
Scandinavia	38	11	48

An pessimistic vacationer would opt for:

• Scandinavia.

• Galapagos Islands.

• Australia.

• Eastern Europe.