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the firm. Make a table of your share of the possible payouts the company may have to make on the two policies, along with their associated probabilities. (Negative answers should be indicated with a minus sign. Round your "Probability" answers to 4 decimal places.) Answer is complete and correct. Outcome: One Fire Outcome: Two Fires $ (74,840) $ (149,840) 0.1999 % 0.0001 % Outcome: No Fire Payout Probability $ 160 99.8000 % g. What are the expected value and variance of your profit? ? Answer is not complete. Expected Standard Variance Return Deviation $ 10 11,249,395 ?

          the firm. Make a table of your share of the possible payouts the company may have to make on the two policies, along with their
associated probabilities. (Negative answers should be indicated with a minus sign. Round your "Probability" answers to 4 decimal
places.)
Answer is complete and correct.
Outcome:
One Fire
Outcome:
Two Fires
$ (74,840)
$ (149,840)
0.1999 %
0.0001 %
Outcome:
No Fire
Payout
Probability
$ 160
99.8000 %
g. What are the expected value and variance of your profit?
? Answer is not complete.
Expected
Standard
Variance
Return
Deviation
$ 10
11,249,395 ?
        
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the firm. Make a table of your share of the possible payouts the company may have to make on the two policies, along with their
associated probabilities. (Negative answers should be indicated with a minus sign. Round your "Probability" answers to 4 decimal
places.)
Answer is complete and correct.
Outcome:
One Fire
Outcome:
Two Fires
(74,840) (149,840)
0.1999 %
0.0001 %
Outcome:
No Fire
Payout
Probability
160
99.8000 %
g. What are the expected value and variance of your profit?
? Answer is not complete.
Expected
Standard
Variance
Return
Deviation 10
11,249,395 ?

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the firm. Make a table of your share of the possible payouts the company may have to make on the two policies, along with their associated probabilities. (Negative answers should be indicated with a minus sign. Round your "Probability" answers to 4 decimal places.) Answer is complete and correct. g. What are the expected value and variance of your profit? Answer is not complete. the firm. Make a table of your share of the possible payouts the company may have to make on the two policies, along with their places.) Answer is complete and correct. Outcome: No Fire $160 99.8000% Outcome: One Fire $74,840 0.1999% Outcome: Two Fires $149,840 0.0001% Payout Probability g. What are the expected value and variance of your profit? Answer is not complete Expected Return $10 Variance $11,249,395 Standard Deviation
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00:01 Okay, so we've got a company which charges £180 for insurance premium, and in the event of a fire, then they'll pay you £170 ,000.
00:10 And it tells the probability of the fire is 0 .1.
00:12 So the first thing it has to do is make a table for the payout, possible payouts in each policy.
00:17 So the payout is not including the $180 ,000 premium.
00:20 This is just what the company will pay out.
00:21 So they will pay out nothing if there's no fire, which is going to be obviously 0 .9 probability, and they'll pay out 170 ,000.
00:31 There is a fire, which there's a 0 .1 probability of.
00:34 Part b then asks us for the expected value, variance and sudden deviation of the profit.
00:39 The profit is now going to be 180 minus the payout.
00:45 So if there's no fire, probability of 0 .9, they're going to profit 180.
00:49 If there is a fire, they're going to lose 169 ,820 pounds.
00:59 I'm assuming, well, it might be in dollars, but yeah, whichever currency you're in.
01:03 And that has a probability of 0 .1 .1.
01:06 So the expectation of the profit is given by the sum of a value of the profit times the probability of having that profit.
01:19 So this is overall p.
01:21 So for instance, here, one profit, one possible profit is 180.
01:26 And the probability of that profit is 0 .9.
01:30 And another possible profit is minus 169 ,820.
01:36 And the probability of that is 0 .1.
01:39 And those are the only two values that the profit can take.
01:41 So you just do this and this, you find that this is minus 16 ,000, sorry, 820 pounds.
01:58 And the variance of the profit p is the expectation of the profit squared minus the expectation of the profit all squared like this.
02:13 And so the expectation of the profit squared is just the sum over p squared terms of the probability that p equals p.
02:25 And then we wrote down what the expectation of the profit was before, and so you just square that.
02:34 So if you do that, you'll find that this is roughly 2 .6 times 10 to the 9 variance, and the standard deviation is just the square root of the variance.
02:54 And that's 51 ,000.
02:59 Okay, then part c says, now suppose you issue two policies and the risk of fire is independent across the two policies and then it was to again make a table of the payouts.
03:15 So i'll say number of fires.
03:20 So the three possible payouts depending on how many fires there are.
03:28 There could be zero fire, so neither policy owner has a fire, one of them has a fire, or both of them have a fire.
03:36 The probability of neither of them having a fire is 0 .9 times 0 .9, which is 0 .81.
03:43 The probability of both of them having a fire is 0 .1 times 0 .1, which is 0 .0 .1.
03:49 And therefore, the probability of exactly one of them having a fire is 0 .18.
03:55 Oh, dear.
03:56 I've done that probability in the payoff...
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