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P3382
Using the definition of an D5811: Event-conditional probability and the result R3646: Countable partition additivity of probability measure, we have \begin{equation} \mathbb{P}(E) = \sum_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \mathbb{P} (E \cap F_n) = \sum_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \frac{\mathbb{P} (E \cap F_n)}{\mathbb{P}(F_n)} \mathbb{P}(F_n) = \sum_{n \in \mathbb{N}} \mathbb{P}(E \mid F_n) \mathbb{P}(F_n) \end{equation} $\square$