Continuity of a claim exponentially distributed

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I have the following exercise:

The occurence of a claim follows an exponential distribution with mean 4000. The insurance imposes an upper limit of 6000 for coverage in the policy. If a claim occurs for sure, the payment of the policy has the following cdf:

F(x) =

0 if x <0

1-e^(-x/4000) if 0 ≤ x < 6000

1 if x≥6000.

a) Check at which points F is continuous. Draw a graph of the function.

b)Bonus question(useful for next semester): Compute the expectation of the loss.

I want to be sure if my way to check for continuity is right. For me a function is continuous at point c if f(c) = lim x->c f(x). So in that case:

  • f(0)= 0, lim x->0 f(x)= lim x-> 1-e^(-x/4000)=0 (e to the power 0 = 1).

--> So in that case the function is continuous at x=0

  • f(6000)=1, lim x->6000 f(x)= lim x->6000 1-e^(-6000/4000)= 0.776

--> So in that case the function is discontinuous at x=6000

I'm scared I missed something by not checking for each situation the limit from the right and the limit from the left. Am I right to do so ?