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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2006 iii Paper 14 5 i Solution by
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Let be the number of red vertices in . It has a binomial distribution with parameters and , so independence givesFor , the strict inequality follows by integrating for . Hence the exponential Markov bound yieldsThereforeThis supplies the tail estimate directly, including the strict constant in the requested bound.
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