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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2019 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics, and probability resit 9 b iii Solution by
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The disjoint decomposition into sets uses only events in . Finite additivity and nonnegativity giveThus already follows from the two stated requirements. Equality is attained, for example, by choosing , since then . More generally it holds whenever . Neither normalization nor countable additivity is needed for this particular inequality.
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