An individual who owns the ice cream concession at a sporting event can expect to net $600 on the sale of ice cream if the day is sunny, but only $300 if it is cloudy, and $100 if it rains. The respective probabilities for those events are 0.6, 0.3, and 0.1. What is his expected  profit?

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An individual who owns the ice cream concession at a sporting event can expect to net $600 on the sale of ice cream if the day is sunny, but only $300 if it is cloudy, and $100 if it rains. The respective probabilities for those events are 0.6, 0.3, and 0.1. What is his expected  profit?

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