What is the expected value?

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I have this statement:

In a bag there are four cards marked with the letter $A$ and six cards marked with the letter $B$, all of equal shape and size. A game consists of taking out two random cards, one by one and with replacement, where if both correspond to type $A$, then you win $\$1,000$; if both cards are different, you earn $\$200$; and if both cards have the letter $B$, then $\$1,500$ is lost. If you want to participate in the game, then it is estimated, from the calculation of the expected value, that the result of the game will be:

A) Lose $\$256$

B) Lose $\$284$

C) Win $\$100$

D) Win $\$256$

E) Neither win nor lose

My development was:

First i need to get the probability of get $AA$ or $AB$ or $BA$ or $BB$

The cases for $AA$ is equal to $\binom{4}{2}_{rep} = 10$

The cases for $AB$ is equal to $\binom{4}{1}\cdot\binom{6}{1}=24$

The cases for $BA$ is equal to $\binom{6}{1}\cdot\binom{4}{1}=24$

The cases for $BB$ is equal to $\binom{6}{2}_{rep} = 21$

The total cases of choose two cards of a total of $10$ is equal to $10 + 24 + 24 + 21 = 79$

Thus, $1000(\frac{10}{79}) + 200(\frac{48}{79}) - 1500(\frac{21}{79}) = E(X)$

$E(X) = \approx-149$ or Lose $\$149$, but this result don't appear in the answers. So, what ins wrong with my development? Thanks in advance.

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A strong suggestion that your numbers aren't right: you say there are $79$ possible ways you could experience this game. That's a very prime number in a context where I would expect a highly composite number.

I advise instead discarding this case-counting thing and just working with probabilities directly (since you're drawing cards with replacement). The probability of $A$ is $\frac{2}{5}$, so the probability of $AA$ is $\left(\frac{2}{5}\right)^2$.

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Selection with replacement means that after each draw the result is recorded, but the card itself is replaced before the next draw.

So the number of ways to draw $AA$ is $4 \times 4 = 16$ and not $10$, etc.