The Coin-Flipped Gaussian

Let X X be a standard normal random variable, and independently flip a fair coin to set S=+1 S = +1 or S=−1 S = -1 with probability 12 \frac{1}{2} each. Define Z=SX Z = S X . Three questions: What is the distribution of Z Z ? Are Z Z and X X correlated? Are Z Z and X X independent?

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