Chapter 6: Q.57 (page 380)
.Life insurance The risk of insuring one person鈥檚 life is reduced if we insure many people. Suppose that we insure two -year-old males, and that their ages at death are independent. If are the insurer鈥檚 income from the two insurance policies, the insurer鈥檚 average income W on the two policies is
Find the mean and standard deviation of . (You see that the mean income is the same as for a single policy but the standard deviation is less.)
Short Answer
Mean of W,,
Standard deviation of W,


