Intersection

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The intersection of two sets is the set consisting of only the elements that appear in both sets.

  • ABA \cap B denotes the intersection of sets AA and BB.
    • ex. GD={Alice}G \cap D = \{Alice\} means that "Alice is a part of both set AA and set BB".

Two sets whose intersection is the empty set (in other words, have no element in common) are called disjoint.

Example: Yelp

  • A=A = The set of Yelp users who like Biz1
  • B=B = The set of Yelp users who like Biz2

The set ABA \cap B is the set of users that liked both Biz1 and Biz2

When events are independent, we can use the multiplication rule for independent events, which states that:

  • P(AB)=P(A)×P(B)P(A \cap B) = P(A) \times P(B).