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A customer buys a $1000 deductible policy on her $31,000 car. The probability of having an accident in which the loss is greater than $1000 is 0.03, and then that loss, as a fraction of the value of the car minus the deductible, has the
(a) What is the probability that the insurance company must pay the customer more than $2000?
(b) What does the company expect to pay?
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