Solution

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Part (a) only gives a standard-deviation scale of order , and part (b) gives the same concentration scale. Part (c) improves this to order . When , however, the mean itself is of order , so even part (c) does not show that fluctuations are little- of the mean. None of these bounds reveals the natural fluctuation scale obtained below.
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