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SOA Exam FAM Sample Question 85

Study guide: Exam FAM

For the workers' compensation claims of a construction company you are given:

i) The annual number of claims follows the Poisson distribution with mean 20.

ii) Claim sizes X follow the lognormal distribution with \mu = 4.2 and \sigma = 1.1.

iii) The company retains the first 500 of each claim.

iv) Annual aggregate retained claims approximately follow the normal distribution.

v) E\left[\left(X \wedge 500\right)^2\right] = 26{,}189

Determine the 90th percentile of the aggregate distribution of retained claims.

  • A) Less than 2900
  • B) At least 2900, but less than 3100
  • C) At least 3100, but less than 3300
  • D) At least 3300, but less than 3500
  • E) At least 3500

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