Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region V
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE OF CAMARINES SUR
San Jose, Pili, Camarines Sur

LEARNING ACTIVITY SHEET No. 6

Illustrating the Union and Intersection of Events
Math 10- Quarter III - Week 6

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Section : ___________________________________
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I. Introduction

This activity serves as a self-learning guide for you. It facilitates understanding of

the lesson as it specifically aims for your mastery of the concept on events, union and
intersection of events. You may use activities such as tossing a coin and rolling a die to
illustrate events. Furthermore, listing, tree diagram and Venn Diagram are also used to
illustrate the aforementioned concepts.

II. Learning Competency

At the end of this learning activity, you should be able to illustrate

events, and the union and intersection of events. (M10SP-lllg-1)

III. Simple Discussion

A. Describing Simple Event

Determine the possible outcome of each activity.
a. Tossing a coin b. Rolling a die
Results:
a. tossing a coin = {H,T}
b. rolling a die = {1,2,3,4,5,6}
Keep in Mind:
Tossing a coin has two outcomes the Head (H) and the Tail (T) while in rolling a
die, there are six faces numbered 1,2,3,4,5 and 6.
Questions:
1. What can you say about the chance of getting a head or a tail? Getting a 4
in rolling a die?
2. When you roll a die, what is your chances of getting an even number?
Answers:
1. There is only 1 outcome in getting Head or Tail and 1 outcome in getting a
number 4.
2. There are 3 possible even numbers, 2,4, and 6 as the outcome.
 Consider this, if the event has only one (1) outcome, it is said to be a simple event.
While if the outcome is more than 1, we can say it is not a simple event.

B. Understanding Compound Events

Consider the situation below. Use a tree diagram in answering the question at the right.

A school canteen serves lunch for students. A set of menu consists of 1 type of rice, 1
type of viand, and 1 type of drink. The tree diagram below shows the possible menu
combinations.

Rice Viand Drink Questions:

1. Give the sample space of
pineapple juice combination of rice, viand, and
chicken adobo orange juice drink. How many possible
Fried rice pinakbet pineapple juice outcomes are there?
orange juice 2. How many outcomes are there for
Steamed pineapple juice selecting any lunch with pineapple
Rice chicken adobo orange juice juice?
pinakbet pineapple juice 3. How many outcomes are there for
orange juice selecting a lunch with chicken
adobo and pineapple juice?

Answers:
1. For easier listing, we use the following: fr – fried rice; sr – steamed rice; ca -
chicken adobo; p - pinakbet; pj – pineapple juice; and oj – orange juice
{(fr, ca, pj), (fr, ca, oj), (fr, p, pj), (fr, p, oj), (sr,ca, pj), (sr, ca, oj), (sr, p, pj), (sr, p, oj)}

There are total of 8 possible outcomes.

2. There are 4 outcomes in selecting any lunch with pineapple juice. See the tree
diagram

3. There are 2 outcomes for selecting a lunch with chicken adobo and pineapple
juice.

An event which consist of more than one outcome is called

compound event.

C. Intersection and Union of Events

Look at the Venn Diagram at the right,

Given: Set A = 2,3,4,6 Set B = 1,3,5,7

The numbers 2,3,4,6 in Set A and numbers 1,3,5,7 in Set B are the elements in A and B.
The union of Sets in both A and B are 1,2,3,4,5,6,7. While number 3 is the intersection
of sets. The concepts in finding union of sets are the same in finding union of events.

Union of events is a set that contains all of the elements that are in at least
one of the two events. The union is written as A ∪ B.
Intersection of Events is a set that contains all of the elements that are in both
events. The intersection of events A and B is written as A ∩ B.
 In rolling a die, find the union of the events A “the
EXAMPLE 1 number rolled is even” and B “the number rolled is
greater than three.
Result:
The outcomes that are either in A= {2,4,6} or B= {4,5,6} or both are 𝐴 ∪ 𝐵 = {2,4,5,6}

A six-sided die is rolled once, say;

EXAMPLE 2 X: the number rolled is less than 3
Y: the number rolled is greater than
Find the intersection of events in A and B.
Result:
The outcomes in X = {1,2} and Y= {2,3,4,5,6} and X ∩ Y = {2}

IV. Learning Activities

Activity 1 Make Me Simple

Identify whether the given event is simple or not. Justify your answer.

Ten strips of paper are numbered from 1 to 10, the event of getting
a. 7
b. multiples of 3
c. a number greater than 6

Activity 2 My Tree Diagram

A family has three children. Use a tree diagram to show the possible genders of the
children. How many outcomes are there?

Activity 3 To the next level!

Find the union and Intersection

of the given Venn Diagram at the right.

V. Rubrics

Points 4 3 2 1
Amount Learners show Learners show Learner Learners show no
of Work complete and correct partial steps to shows only attempt to really do
steps to arrive at the arrive at the correct any of the problems,
correct answer. correct answer. no answer given.
answer.
 VI. Answer Key

Activity 1
a. Simple event. There’s only one outcome for getting a 7, {7}
b. Not a simple event. There could be many outcomes such as {3,6,9}
c. Not a simple event. The outcomes are many {7,8,9,10}
Activity 2
There are 8 possible outcomes
Activity 3
Vegetable Dish ∪ Meat Dish
= {Ginataang talong, Pinakbet,
chopsuey, Adobo, Porksteak}
Vegetable Dish ∩ Meat Dish
= {chopsuey}

VII. References

Mathematics Learner’s Module, Grade 10, page 328-332

DLP for Math 10, page 125-148
Math 10 Teaching Guide, page 280-290

Development Team of the Learning Activity Sheet

Writer : Rey Allan H. Nuiz

Management Team : Jesus M. Vargas
: Jona Joy A. Amparo
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Validators : Jhonalyn D. Consorte
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