This paper investigates tail behavior of the randomly weighted sum ∑nk = 1θkXkand reaches an asymptotic formula, whereXk, 1 ⩽k⩽n, are real-valued linearly wide quadrant-dependent (LWQD) random variables with a common heavy-tailed distribution, and θk, 1 ⩽k⩽n, independent ofXk, 1 ⩽k⩽n, arennon-negative random variables without any dependence assumptions. The LWQD structure includes the linearly negative quadrant-dependent structure, the negatively associated structure, and hence the independence structure. On the other hand, it also includes some positively dependent random variables and some other random variables. The obtained result coincides with the existing ones. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]