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Instructor: Hi there.
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In this lecture, we are going to explain
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what a union of two events is and how we can use it.
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Okay, now we know which part of the graph represents
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the intersection of A and B
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but what if we only require one of them to occur?
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Regardless which one.
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That is the same as asking either A or B to happen.
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In such cases, we need to find the union of A and B.
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The union of two sets is a combination
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of all outcomes preferred for either A or B.
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If you think about different American states
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as separate sets then the citizens of each state
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would be their elements.
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Just like every Texan is an American,
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so is every element of an individual set
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also an element of the union.
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We denote the union of two sets as A union B,
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the symbol we use is just the intersection symbol
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flipped upside down.
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To avoid confusion between the two,
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remember the symbol for union resembles a capital letter U.
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Okay, let us examine what the unions would be
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in the three different cases.
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If the sets A and B do not touch at all
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then their intersection would be the empty set.
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Therefore, their union would simply be their sum.
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Intuitively, this makes sense.
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No element is in both sets simultaneously
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so we do not need to worry about double-counting.
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Going back to the card example,
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the union of hearts and diamonds would be all red cards.
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No card can have multiple suits
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so we need not worry about counting a card twice.
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Therefore, the number of red cards equal the union of cards
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which are either diamonds or hearts.
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If the events intersect, the area of the union
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is represented by the sum of the two sets
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minus their intersection.
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That is because if we simply add up the area
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of the two sets, we would be double-counting
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every element that is part of the intersection.
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For instance, five people in the office have blonde hair,
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four people have blue eyes, and only Kate has both.
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Therefore, there are only three non-blonde people
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with blue eyes and four blonde people with non-blue eyes.
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Thus, the union of blonde and blue-eyed colleagues
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is the sum of people who have
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precisely one of the two features
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as well as Kate who has both.
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Mathematically this result is three plus four plus one
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or eight employees, satisfying at least one
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of the conditions.
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Alternatively, we can compute the union using the formula
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we mentioned earlier.
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We have five blondes plus four blue-eyed people, minus one
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or a total of eight colleagues who possess
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at least one of the two distinct features.
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In this instance, the minus one represents Kate
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who is the intersection
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since she is both blonde and blue-eyed.
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We can use the notation we learned so far in this course
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to express this.
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The union of A and B equals the sum of the sets
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of A and B minus their intersection.
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In fact, the union formula we just showed you
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is universally true
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regardless of the relationship between A and B.
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Okay, so what happens if B is a subset of A?
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Well, in that case, the union would simply be
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the entire set A.
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Imagine event A is being from the U.S.
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and event B is being from California.
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If you talk about all the people
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who are either from California or the United States,
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you are simply talking about all the people from the USA.
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Remember that the intersection of these two sets
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is equal to the entire set B.
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So the intersection of A and B
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represents all the people from California.
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If we plug this into the formula from a few minutes ago
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that would give us the following statement.
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The union of all people from California or the United States
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is the sum of all California natives
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and all Americans minus anybody born in the Golden State.
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After canceling out all Californians
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we get exactly what we expect.
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The union of people from either California
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or the United States equals the entire population
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of the USA.
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Now that we know what unions and intersections are,
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we can talk about mutually exclusive sets.
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In the next lecture
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we are going to define the term mutually exclusive
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and discuss certain characteristics of such sets.
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Thanks for watching.
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