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Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2025 Paper 1 14 a ii Solution by
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With , nonnegativity of the probability density function at both and requiresThis is equivalent to . The derivativeshows that this infimum occurs at . Therefore the necessary and sufficient restriction isSufficiency follows from the same decreasing-ratio argument at every interior point. The endpoint values of are allowed: the probability density function merely vanishes at one endpoint.
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