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May 14'23

Exercise

The repair costs for boats in a marina have the following characteristics:

Boat type Number of boats Probability that repair is needed Mean of repair cost given a repair Variance of repair cost given a repair
Power boats 100 0.3 300 10,000
Sailboats 300 0.1 1000 400,000
Luxury yachts 50 0.6 5000 2,000,000

At most one repair is required per boat each year. Repair incidence and cost are mutually independent. The marina budgets an amount, [math]Y[/math], equal to the aggregate mean repair costs plus the standard deviation of the aggregate repair costs.

Calculate [math]Y[/math].

  • 200,000
  • 210,000
  • 220,000
  • 230,000
  • 240,000

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ABy Admin
May 14'23

Key: B

The number of repairs for each boat type has a binomial distribution. For power boats:

[[math]] \begin{aligned} &\operatorname{E}[ S ] = 100(0.3)(300) = 9, 000, \\ &\operatorname{E}[ S ] = 100(0.3)10, 000) + 100(0.3)(0.7)(300 2 ) = 2,190, 000 \end{aligned} [[/math]]

For sail boats:

[[math]] \begin{aligned} &\operatorname{E}[ S ] = 300(0.1)(1, 000) = 30, 000, \\ &\operatorname{E}[ S ] = 300(0.1)(400, 000) + 300(0.1)(0.9)(1, 0002 ) = 39, 000, 000 \end{aligned} [[/math]]

For luxury yachts:

[[math]] \begin{aligned} &\operatorname{E}[ S ] = 50(0.6)(5, 000) = 150, 000, \\ &\operatorname{E}[ S ] = 50(0.6)(0.4)(2, 000, 000) + 50(0.6)(0.4)(5, 0002 ) = 360, 000, 000 \end{aligned} [[/math]]

The sums are 189,000 expected and a variance of 401,190,000 for a standard deviation of 20,030. The mean plus standard deviation is 209,030.

Copyright 2023. The Society of Actuaries, Schaumburg, Illinois. Reproduced with permission.

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