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Needs:
Pair Unions ›
Pair Intersections ›
Needed by:
Family Unions and Intersections ›
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Set Unions and Intersections

Why

We study how intersection and union interact.

Results

The following are easy results.1 They are known as the distributive laws.

$A \cap (B \cup C) = (A \cap B) \cup (A \cap C)$
$A \cup (B \cap C) = (A \cup B) \cap (A \cup C)$
  1. The accounts will appear in future editions. ↩︎
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