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ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2014/discrete-mathematics-continuous-mathematics-and-probability/7/a/i/solution

Let be a finite or countable partition of a sample space into events of positive probability. The events are disjoint and their union is . Countable additivity and the definition of conditional probability therefore give the law of total probability
Cells of zero probability contribute zero through and can be omitted rather than assigning an undefined conditional probability.

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