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The idea of insurance is that we all face risks that are unlikely but carry high cost. Think of a fire destroying your home. So we form a group to share the risk: we all pay a small armount, and the insurance policy pays a large amount to those few of us whose homes burn down. An insurance company looks at the records for millions of homeowners and sees that the mean loss from fire in a year is μ $500 per house and that the standard deviation of the loss is σ $10,000. (The distribution of losses is extremely right-skewed: most people have $0 loss, but a few have large losses.) The company plans to sell fire insurance for $500 plus enough to cover its costs and profit.

(a) Explain clearly why it would be unwise to sell only 100 policies. Then explain why selling many thousands of such policies is a safe business

(b) Suppose the company sells the policies for $600. If the company sells 50,000 policies, what is the approximate probability that the average loss in a year will be greater than $600?

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