Define a problem using chernoff bounds

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We are preparing this for an exam.

Given the division of a plane into a number of regions of different sizes. We would like to find, or guess, which is the biggest region, by doing the following.

We will shoot a number of random points at the plane, and then conclude that the region containing the most points, is also the biggest.

The question is: how do use Chernoff bounds to say how many random points we need to shoot, to know that we have found the biggest region with, say, 75% probability?