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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 by
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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 probabilityCells of zero probability contribute zero through and can be omitted rather than assigning an undefined conditional probability.
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