Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-year-1-of-the-computer-science-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2016/discrete-mathematics-continuous-mathematics-and-probability/9/b/iii/solution

Write and . For , the factor is at most one throughout , so
For , compare the tails instead: throughout , giving
Rearranging proves
This is stochastic domination of by its size-biased distribution. The proof needs only the finite positive mean, not the finite variance assumed in (ii).

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