Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Oxford / 2015 / Prelims / Mathematics III / 4 / c

Each random variable has mean zero and second moment $2/3$, so its variance is $2/3$. For $S_m={\sum }_{i=1}^m{X}_i$, linearity of expectation and variance additivity for independent random variables give

Each $X_i$ has the same probability distribution as $-X_i$, and independence makes $S_m$ and $-S_m$ identically distributed. Thus their two strict tail probabilities are equal:Apply Chebyshev's inequality using the mean and variance from part (i):The equal-tail argument is essential: applying Chebyshev's inequality directly to the absolute tail alone gives the weaker bound $8/(3m)$.