Removing a line break following \item before \begin{align*}

Question

I'm trying to remove the line break that occurs when trying to start an equation within a list. This is what I'm trying to do, and the output that occurs:

...
\item \begin{align*}
P(J|B,I,M)&=P(B)*P(M)*P(I|B,M)*P(G|B,I,M)*P(J|G)\\
&=.9*.1*.9*.9*.9\\
&=\boxed{.06561}
\end{align*}
...

I want to get rid of the extraneous line break that occurs at the beginning of the list item:

try \item$\begin{aligned}[t]...\end{aligned}$, see how it goes... — cmhughes, Apr 21 '16 at 18:09
another possible duplicate: aligning a multiline formula with the bullet of itemize — barbara beeton, Apr 21 '16 at 18:51

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 21 '16 at 18:35

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Special thanks to @cmhughes.

The solution is to use math mode with the aligned command:

\item
$\begin{aligned}[t]
...
\end{aligned}$

answered Apr 21 '16 at 18:35

Zack Zatkin-Gold

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Removing a line break following \item before \begin{align*}

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