Prove that if P(A) = P(A,B), then A is a subset of B.

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I'm struggling a lot on this problem.

This feels intuitionistically true, since if their probabilities are equal, that means that the joint probability did not affect the size of the sample space that p maps to, which must mean that A is a subset.

How would I derive this from axioms?

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You have $P(A)-P(A\cap B)=P(A\cap B^c)=0$, so $\omega\notin A\cap B^c$ for $P$-almost all $\omega$, which means that $A^c\cup B$ contains $P$-almost all $\omega$, or in other words, $(\omega\in A\implies\omega\in B)$ holds $P$-almost surely. By a slight abuse of language, one says that $A$ is almost surely included in $B$.