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CAS Exam MAS-I Fall 2019, Question 25

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A bank uses a logistic model to estimate the probability of clients defaulting on a loan, and it comes up with the following parameter estimates:

i Variable \beta_i
0 Intercept -1.6790
1 Income (in 000's) -0.0294
2 Student [Yes] -0.3870
3 Number of credit cards 0.7710

The following four clients applied for loans from the bank:

Client Income Student # of credit cards
1 25,000 Y 1
2 10,000 Y 3
3 20,000 N 0
4 75,000 N 3

The bank will reject any loan if the probability of default is greater than 10%.

Calculate the number of clients whose loan requests are rejected.

  • A) 0
  • B) 1
  • C) 2
  • D) 3
  • E) 4

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