I am new to statistics and I happen to came across this property of MGF: >Let $X$ and $Y$ be independent random variables. Let $Z$ be equal to $X$, with probability $p$, and equal to $Y$, with probability $1 − p$. Then, $$M_Z(s)= p M_X(s) + (1 − p) M_Y(s).$$ The proof is given that $$M_Z(s)= E[e^{s Z}]= p E[e^{s X}] + (1 − p)E[e^{s Y}]= p M_X (s) + (1 − p)M_Y (s)$$ But I do not understand, can someone show me a full proof as in showing the conditioning on the random choice between X and Y, as in why the following holds $$M_Z(s)= E[e^{s Z}]= p E[e^{s X}] + (1 − p)E[e^{s Y}]$$ Thanks very much.