Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2002 iii Paper 40 1 a iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-14
Here attains its maximum one at , so . For , put . Then . Its derivative is , so its maximum is at , with value .
For , is increasing and has maximum one. For , has logarithmic derivative , so its maximum is at , with value . Therefore the Laplace ratio-of-uniforms envelope has the finite boundsThese calculations establish finiteness and identify the tight axis-aligned bounds, rather than relying only on exponential tail decay.