Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-mathematics-course-of-the-university-of-cambridge/2010/iii/paper-28/2/a/i/solution

For each fixed , the variables are independent and identically distributed random variables with Bernoulli distribution of parameter . Their expected value is , and the strong law of large numbers gives almost surely.
For a finite set , intersect these probability-one events over its finitely many elements. On the resulting single event, every one of the finitely many errors tends to zero, so their maximum tends to zero:
If is empty, take the displayed maximum to be zero. The important point is simultaneous convergence on one event; pointwise convergence at an uncountable collection of arguments would not alone imply the uniform claim in part (ii).

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