When limited information on the distribution of a positive random variable X (continuous or discrete) is known (e.g., mode, mean, variance), the tail probability P(X 2 t) cannot be chosen independently. In this paper supremum and infimum for P(X 2 t) will be calculated over the set of positive random variables with unique mode, mean and/or variance given.
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