Question: Please show your work for each problem or you will not receive credit. Please bold / make clear your final answer. Temple owns a small

Please show your work for each problem or you will not receive credit. Please bold/make clear your
final answer.
Temple owns a small warehouse on campus where they store vehicles. The warehouse is subject
to the risk of a fire. Below is the probability distribution for losses:
The firm has four current risk management options it can use to manage this risk. Construct a
loss matrix. What is the expected cost for each option? (4 points each)
A. Insurance of $150,000 with a premium cost of $11,000.
B. Insurance policy with a face amount (FA) of $25,000, a premium cost of $4,500. Also
implement a loss prevention program that costs $2,000 and changes the probability of a
$0 loss to 91%,$25,000 to 6%,$70,000 to 2%,$100,000 to 1% and $150,000 to 0%
C. Insurance policy with a FA of $50,000, a premium of $7,000.
D. Retention
Assume that the risk manager in the above example makes decisions based on total cost, do a
comparison where you show what conditions on the WVs (Worry Value) would make Option
A preferred to retention Option D (4 points)
 Please show your work for each problem or you will not

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