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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2010 Paper 2 17 c i Solution by
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Put and . Decompose the marginal as , where . It follows thatBoth bounds are attainable: choose none or all of the mass outside to belong to . More explicitly, the four joint cell masses can be , all nonnegative. This is the first case of sharp bounds from binary conditional probabilities.
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