An actuary is a person who assesses various forms of risk. Based on past data, the holder of an automobile insurance policy pays an insurance premium of $1200 and has a 5% chance of an accident causing $1000 of damage, a 2% chance of $5000 damage and a 1% chance of totaling the car worth $25,000. The probability of the insurance holder making through the year without any accidents is 92%. Find the expected value and interpret it. Is the insurance company likely to make or lose money with this type of policy in the long run

Email viruses are typically launched by people who modify header information to hide their identity. brightmail's enrique salem says that in the future, your email reader will authenticate the sender before putting hte message in your inbox. that way, you will know the source of all the emails you read. alan nugent of novell says, "i'm kind of a fan of eliminating anonymity if that is the price for security." will eliminating anonymity make computers more secure?

Beswick company your team is allocated a project involving a major client, the beswick company. although the organization has many clients, this client, and project, is the largest source of revenue and affects the work of several other teams in the organization. the project requires continuous involvement with the client, so any problems with the client are immediately felt by others in the organization. jamie, a member of your team, is the only person in the company with whom this client is willing to deal. it can be said that jamie has:

For a firm that uses the weighted average method of process costing, which of the following must be true? (a) physical units can be greater than or less than equivalent units. (b) physical units must be equal to equivalent units. (c) equivalent units must be greater than or equal to physical units. (d) physical units must be greater than or equal to equivalent units.