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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2018 iii Paper 207 6 iv Solution by
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The minimum exceeds exactly when both times exceed . By independence,Differentiating its survivor function givesThe tail integral formula for moments then givesEquivalently, integration by parts in gives . The assumed makes the boundary term vanish, since .
The stated tail condition does not itself guarantee a finite mean. For example, the proper survivor functionssatisfy , but their product behaves as , whose integral diverges. Thus the displayed expectation is valid as an extended nonnegative value; finiteness needs integrability of the product. The exponential distribution in the next part guarantees that finiteness.
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