Solution

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The Bernstein polynomial is the positive weighted average
For , the Bernstein basis weights are nonnegative and the binomial theorem gives . Hence . In particular,
This is the contraction property of the positive linear operator on continuous functions defined by the Bernstein polynomial.

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