In: Statistics and Probability
The number of successful claims on life insurance policies for an insurance company has been determined to follow a Poisson process with an average rate of 5 claims per week. If the amount of money paid on each policy is uniformly distributed between $2,000 and $10,000, what is the mean of the total amount of money that the company pays out in a four-week period?
expected amount paid on single policy E(x)=(2000+10000)/2 =6000
expected number of polcies to be paid in 4 week E(N)=4*5 =20
therefore mean of the total amount of money that the company pays out in a four-week period =E(X)*E(N)
=20*6000=120000