Fall 2005 - #14

[GramercyBob]

Would someone please check out the third line from the SOA solutions for question 14, Fall 2005? I'm not getting anything close to those numbers.
Typo or my stupidity?

[Hayden]

I got exactly what they have in the solution. Where exactly are you having a problem?

[GramercyBob]

I was confusing the capital Phi and the lower case phi. Thanks.

[alphaace]

yeah I did that too. Don't know why they choose letters that look so alike.

[Bühlmann]

Originally Posted by alphaace

yeah I did that too. Don't know why they choose letters that look so alike.

I think it is convention, not choice. However, most of us have never run into this technicality. It fooled me when I sat in the fall as I'm sure many others would attest to.

[carrytheCrøss]

Originally Posted by Bühlmann

It fooled me when I sat in the fall as I'm sure many others would attest to.

Concur (even after having worked a similar problem in Mahler's Aids).

[Bühlmann]

Originally Posted by Searching.

Concur (even after having worked a similar problem in Mahler's Aids).

Yeah, I STILL botched it up despite this. I think I thought, "way too hard to put on the exam" when I saw it in Mahler's study manual. They ended up meeting you half-way and giving you the derivatives on the exam.
My guess is that the exam results probably showed this question to not be significantly different than guessing.

[TiderInsider]

Originally Posted by Bühlmann

Yeah, I STILL botched it up despite this. I think I thought, "way too hard to put on the exam" when I saw it in Mahler's study manual. They ended up meeting you half-way and giving you the derivatives on the exam.
My guess is that the exam results probably showed this question to not be significantly different than guessing.

Surprisingly enough I nailed this question the first time I saw it. No time presure and I had just went through the section in Mahler's notes....now if I could just get my overall %age correct from 50% to >60% I'd be in business.