4. Your friend throws an unknown number, ν, of standard dice and reports that she got x sixes.
(i) Assuming all throws of the dice are independent, write down the likelihood of ν given x.
(ii) By considering the ratio L(ν + 1; x)/L(ν; x), show that there are two integer values of ν which maximise the likelihood L.
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