Past exam of the real and harmonic analysis course of the University of Oxford / 2007 / 2 / a

An outer measure on $X$ is a function $\mu :\mathcal{P}(X)\to [0,\infty ]$ satisfying $\mu (\varnothing )=0$, monotonicity, and countable subadditivity:Its measurable sets are those satisfying Caratheodory measurability criterion:The test runs over all subsets $E$, including nonmeasurable ones.