An insurance company has a portfolio of 10,000 policies. Based on past data the company estimates that the probability of a claim on any one policy in a year is 0.003. It assumes no policy will generate more than one claim in a year. 4. 5. study to compare two different methods of teaching reading, a class of 20 children divided into two groups at random. Each group was taught reading using one (a) (b) (c) Determine the approximate probability of more than 40 claims from the portfolio of 10,000 policies in a year.

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An insurance company has a portfolio of 10,000 policies. Based on past data the company estimates that the probability of a claim on any one policy in a year is 0.003. It assumes no policy will generate more than one claim in a year.
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study to compare two different methods of teaching reading, a class of 20 children divided into two groups at random. Each group was taught reading using one
(a) (b) (c)
Determine the approximate probability of more than 40 claims from the portfolio
of 10,000 policies in a year.

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