Condition for Expectation of Non-Negative Random Variable to be Zero

Theorem

Let $X$ be a random variable.

Let:

$\map \Pr {X \ge 0} = 1$

Then $\expect X = 0$ if and only if $\map \Pr {X = 0} = 1$.

Proof

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