Auto insurance insurance companies collect annual pay-ments from drivers in exchange for paying for the cost of accidents. a) why should you be reluctant to accept a $1500 pay-ment from your neighbor to cover his automobile accidents in the next year? b) why can the insurance company make that offer

Step-by-step explanation:

a) Because you are only receiving $1500 and in exchange you would have to cover for this accident damage in the next year, which could be up to hundred of thousands of dollar. Sure there's a chance the your neighbor might drive safely, but the odds are far more in his favor than yours.

b) The insurance company collect payments from hundred of thousands buyers, making their cash flow up to tens of million dollar. Sure the expected value of accidents might be high but as a company they surely have capital to cover a handful of cases, if their calculation done right.

step-by-step explanation:

the smallest possible measurement of the width is 14 feet

step-by-step explanation:

let's assume length of parallelogram is 'l'

width of parallelogram is 'w'

the perimeter of a parallelogram must be no less than 40 feet

so, we get

we are given

length of parallelogram is 6 feet

so,

l=6

we can plug it

now, we can solve for w

subtract both sides by 12

divide both sides by 2

and we get

so,

the smallest possible measurement of the width is 14 feet