# Math Help - Relationship with the expectation value

1. ## Relationship with the expectation value

In a recent homework question I was asked to find the followings:

$E(X)$and $\int_{0}^{\infty}[1-F_X(x)]dx$
$F_X(x)=P(X\leq x)=\left\{\begin{matrix}
(1-1/x^2) \ \ if \ \ x\geq 1\\
0 \ \ elsewhere
\end{matrix}\right.$

This was easy, I found both to be 1. What bothered me was an remark that the prof made at the end of the question: he wrote "This is not a coincidence."

Is this always true? Are there any proofs? Does it depend of $F_X(x)$? What has the expectation got to do with $\int_{0}^{\infty}[1-F_X(x)]dx$? I though the expectation is just like taking an average.

2. Originally Posted by synclastica_86
In a recent homework question I was asked to find the followings:

$E(X)$and $\int_{0}^{\infty}[1-F_X(x)]dx$
$F_X(x)=P(X\leq x)=\left\{\begin{matrix}
(1-1/x^2) \ \ if \ \ x\geq 1\\
0 \ \ elsewhere
\end{matrix}\right.$

This was easy, I found both to be 1. What bothered me was an remark that the prof made at the end of the question: he wrote "This is not a coincidence."

Is this always true? Are there any proofs? Does it depend of $F_X(x)$? What has the expectation got to do with $\int_{0}^{\infty}[1-F_X(x)]dx$? I though the expectation is just like taking an average.