What is the expected value of total profit

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Suppose that Total Revenue = 200Q and Total Cost = 80 + 50Q where Q, the quantity sold, is a random variable with expected value 20 and variance 4.

What is the expected value of total profit?

What is the standard deviation of total profit?

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