An insurance company pays out claims on its life insurance policies in accordance with a Poisson process

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An insurance company pays out claims on its life insurance policies in accordance with a Poisson process having rate λ = 5 per week. If the amount of money paid on each policy is exponentially distributed with mean $2000, what is the mean and variance of the amount of money paid by the insurance company in a four-week span?

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