Solution

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If the monic orthogonal polynomial had fewer than distinct sign-changing zeros in , multiply the factors corresponding to those zeros to form a polynomial of degree below . Then has one sign and is not identically zero, so its positive-weight integral cannot vanish, contradicting orthogonality. Thus all zeros are distinct and lie in the open interval.

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