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The function −g is convex and 1-Lipschitz. Applying part ii to −g turns its lower-tail event into the upper-tail event for g:
P(W−EW≥t)=P((−W)−E(−W)≤−t)≤e−t2/2.
(1)
This proves probability (iii).

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