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  1. August 2nd 2010, 08:20 PM #1
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    Proving expected value formula

    If A and B are independent show that:

    E[AB]=E[A]E[B]

    Note: A and B are discrete random variables
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    Read this guy http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/...ance-notes.pdf
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  3. August 2nd 2010, 08:29 PM #3
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    Thanks. That was actually pretty straightforward
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