In Theorem 8.1 (expectation of a sum) and Theorem 9.2 (expectation of a product) we proved results for a finite number of r.vs, X1,…,Xn. In general, the corresponding results for a countably infinite number of r.vs are not true. You might like to think about why the proofs do not work if n is replaced by ∞. Can you find X1,X2,… such that the following is not true?
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E∑∞n=1Xn=∑∞n=1EXn