Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2007/ii/paper-2/12f/iii/solution

Choose a polynomial with , using part (i). For all sufficiently large , its degree is at most , so . Positive weights summing to one give , and . Hence
Since is arbitrary, the quadratures converge to the integral of every continuous . The positivity established in part (ii), not just polynomial exactness on its own, controls the approximation error uniformly in .

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