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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford Undated Prelims Mathematics III resit 5 c iii Solution by
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Let and . The standard normal distribution is symmetric and assigns no probability mass to zero. Thus , and its equal two-sided tails giveThereforeso the two events are independent. The permitted approximation gives and , but independence is exact.
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