An engineer decided to make a careful analysis of the cost of fire insurance for his $200,000
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Outcome Probability
No fire loss...........................0.986
$ 10,000 fire loss.....................0.010
40,00Q fire loss......................0.003
200,000 fire loss......................0.001
(a) Compute his expected fire loss in any year.
(b) He finds that the expected fire loss in any year is less than the $550 annual cost of fire insurance. In fact, an insurance agent "explains that this is always true. Nevertheless, the engineer buys fire insurance. Explain why this is or IS not a logical decision
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Engineering Economic Analysis
ISBN: 9780195168075
9th Edition
Authors: Donald Newnan, Ted Eschanbach, Jerome Lavelle
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