probability question

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Originally Posted by situation

just a quick question!

For $n \geq 1$ , let $X_1,X_2,....,X_n$ denote $n$ independent and identically distributed random variables according to $X$ , with cdf $F_X(y)$ . Let $Y = max\{X_1,X_2,....,X_n \}$ . Show that the cdf $F_Y(y)$ of $Y$ satisfies:

$F_Y(y)=(F_X(y))^n \ y\in \Re$

that is meant to be y in the real numbers but cant find what the latex is for it.

thanks :)

$P(Y\le y)=P((X_1\le y)\wedge (X_2\le y) \wedge ... \wedge (X_n\le y))=P(X_1\le y) P(X_2\le y) ... P(X_n\le y))$

CB