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Exercise 2.22 (Probabilistic independence and linear independence)

Let V be a finite-dimensional vector space over a finite field F, and let X be a random variable drawn uniformly at random from V . Let , : V × V F be a non-degenerate bilinear form on V , and let v1,,vn be non-zero vectors in V . Show that the random variables X,v1,,X,vn are jointly independent if and only if the vectors v1,,vn are linearly independent.