Product of Functions of Random Variable

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Given the function \begin{equation} G(X, y)=-\int\frac{g(x, y)}{\frac{\partial}{\partial y}g(x, y)}f(x)dx \end{equation} where $f(x)$ is a probability density function, $X$ is a random variable and $y$ is a choice variable, and $g(x, y)$ is a continuous function of both arguments, and the expected value
\begin{equation} \mathbb{E}[g(X, y)]=\int g(x,y)f(x)dx. \end{equation} $\textbf{Question}$: What is the product of these two functions \begin{equation} G(X, y)\cdot\mathbb{E}[g(X, y)]? \end{equation} Is it equal to \begin{equation} -\int \frac{[g(x, y)]^2}{\frac{\partial}{\partial y}g(x, y)}f(x)dx \end{equation} or \begin{equation} -\int \frac{[g(x, y)]^2}{\frac{\partial}{\partial y}g(x, y)}[f(x)]^2dx? \end{equation}

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You could write it as $$-\int\frac{g(x, y)}{\frac{\partial}{\partial y}g(x, y)}f(x)dx \int g(x,y)f(x)dx$$ or combine the integrals into a double integral (changing the name of one of the integration variables) $$ - \int \int \frac{g(x, y)}{\frac{\partial}{\partial y}g(x, y)}f(x) g(z,y) f(z)\; dx \; dz$$ But there is no reason why it should be any of your other two integrals.