Paper 2, Section , F
Part IA, 2009
Prove the law of total probability: if are pairwise disjoint events with , and then .
There are people in a lecture room. Their birthdays are independent random variables, and each person's birthday is equally likely to be any of the 365 days of the year. By using the bound for , prove that if then the probability that at least two people have the same birthday is at least .
[In calculations, you may take .]