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Given a dataset X={x1,x2,…,xn}X = \{x_1, x_2, \dots, x_n\}X={x1​,x2​,…,xn​} with mean μ\muμ and population variance σ2\sigma^2σ2, define a new dataset YYY where each observation is transformed by yi=θ⋅xi2y_i = \theta \cdot x_i^2yi​=θ⋅xi2​. If the distribution of XXX is symmetric about μ\muμ and has a kurtosis β2=μ4σ4\beta_2 = \frac{\mu_4}{\sigma^4}β2​=σ4μ4​​, what is the variance σy2\sigma_y^2σy2​ in terms of θ,σ2,μ, and β2\theta, \sigma^2, \mu, \text{ and } \beta_2θ,σ2,μ, and β2​?