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I'm sorry to be so pedantic, but your math doesn't seem quite right. Should it instead be (1/100,000 chance of burning down each year) * ($200,000 cost if it does) = $2 per near expected damages?



Err, yes you're right. I was off there by a couple orders of magnitude :)




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