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How do i find the compliment of (A union B)?​

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The complement of AB is the set of all elements not in AB.

If x is some element of AB, then x is either in A or B (or both).

So if x is some element of the complement of AB, that means x does not belong to A or B. In other words, x is not in A and x is not in B.

So (AB)' = A'B', where the ' symbol denotes set complement.

For example, if A = {1, 2, 3, 4} and B = {3, 4, 5, 6} are both subsets of U = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}, then

AB = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6}

→ (AB)' = {0, 7}

Put another way,

A' = {0, 5, 6, 7}

B' = {0, 1, 2, 7}

A'B' = {0, 7}

and we see that both (AB)' and A'B' are the same set.

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