Independency of a set in matroid theory

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Suppose $M=(X,I)$ be a matroid , $X=\{x_1,...,x_m\}$ and $$Y=\{x_i\mid \operatorname{rank}(\{x_1,...,x_i\}) > \operatorname{rank}(\{x_1,...,x_{i-1}\}) \}$$ then $Y$ is in I.

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