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Transcribed Image Text:Let (N, L, P) be a probability space and H EL with P(H) > 0. For any arbitrary subset, A E L,
and define
P(AN H)
P(H)
PH (A) = P(A|H) =
Then show that (H, LH, PH) is a probability space.
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