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Exercise 2.22 (Probabilistic independence and linear independence)
Let be a finite-dimensional vector space over a finite field , and let be a random variable drawn uniformly at random from . Let be a non-degenerate bilinear form on , and let be non-zero vectors in . Show that the random variables are jointly independent if and only if the vectors are linearly independent.