Let $A$ be an exponential random variable with mean $5$. What is the variance of $10A-3$?

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Let $A$ be an exponential random variable with mean $5$, $λ = 1/5$.
What is the variance of $10A-3$?

Is my work correct? $$\text{Var}(10A-3) = 100\text{Var}(A) = 100 \left(\frac{1}{(1/5)^2}\right) = 2500$$

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Comment: yes, correct. Approximate verification (two to three significant digits) by simulation in R.

 a = rexp(10^6, 1/5);  mean(a);  var(a)
 ## 4.998641  # approx 5
 ## 25.02616  # approx 25
 b = 10*a - 3;  mean(b);  var(b)
 ## 46.98641  # approx 47
 ## 2502.616  # approx 2500