How to do the linear transformation of a random variable - AP Statistics

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Variable has a Poisson distribution with a mean of . What is the variance of Variable ?

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Because has a Poisson distribution we know that:

and

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Therefore, since we are given the mean of 25, we can find its variance to also be 25.

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