An insurance company offers two policies that cover the cost of repairs from driving accidents. A policy costing1,000 annually has a1,000 deductible (meaning the driver is responsible for paying the first1,000 in damages before the insurance kicks in), whereas a policy that costs3,000 annually has a250 deductible. Assume that accidents that get reported to the insurance company require more than1,000 to repair the car. If we model the number of accidents as a Poisson random variable with mean l, when is the policy with the1,000 deductible cheaper for the driver on average?
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