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44-21 A guess as to the probability distribution for occupation of free-electron energy states at absolute zero. All the states are occupied (probability one) up to the value Ero, and all those above Ero are empty (occupation probability zero). As the temperature increases, we might expect more and more electrons to be in states with E> Ero.