Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-probability-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2015/1/a/ii/solution

Put . Its survival function is
For each fixed , eventually , and the exponential limit gives . Thus its cumulative distribution function tends to for and to for . This continuous limiting cumulative distribution function identifies the exponential distribution with rate one:
This is the exponential endpoint limit of a uniform maximum: the gap from the upper endpoint is typically of order , although the maximum itself approaches a constant.

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