Please demonstrate how pooling works by illustrating pooling of 5 houses. Assume the policyholders are worried only about fire. The probability of a fire is 10% and the probability of the house being safe is 90%. Each house is worth $50,000 and the fire will destroy the entire property. Also, illustrate for yourself using 2000 simulations of random numbers that the variation from the mean is lesser than if you use just 10 simulations

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Please demonstrate how pooling works by illustrating pooling of 5 houses. Assume the policyholders are worried only about fire. The probability of a fire is 10% and the probability of the house being safe is 90%. Each house is worth $50,000 and the fire will destroy the entire property.

Also, illustrate for yourself using 2000 simulations of random numbers that the variation from the mean is lesser than if you use just 10 simulations

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