ABy Admin
May 14'23

Exercise

  1. Loss amounts and claim numbers are independent within and between products.


  2. Product X Product Y
    Number of Claims Mean 10 2
    Standard Deviation 3 1
    Loss Amount Mean 20 50
    Standard Deviation 5 10

  3. Aggregate losses, for both products combined, approximately follow the normal distribution.

Determine the probability that aggregate losses for both products combined exceed 400.

  • Less than 0.10
  • At least 0.10, but less than 0.15
  • At least 0.15, but less than 0.20
  • At least 0.20, but less than 0.25
  • At least 0.25


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ABy Admin
May 14'23

Key: B

For Product X: aggregate losses have mean 10*20 = 200 and variance 10*25 + 400*9 = 3850.

For Product Y: aggregate losses have mean 2*50 = 100 and variance 2*100 + 2500 = 2700.

Because Product X and Product Y are independent, total aggregate losses, S, have mean 300 and variance 6550.

Using the normal approximation, we have:

[[math]] \operatorname{P}( S \gt 400) = \operatorname{P} \left( \frac{S-300}{\sqrt{6550}} \gt \frac{400-300}{\sqrt{6550}} \right)= \operatorname{P}(Z \gt 1.24 ) = 0.11 [[/math]]

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