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True. The two operations retain complementary membership information. For , equality of the intersections makes equivalent to . For , equality of the unions makes equivalent to . These cases exhaust every possible element. Set extensionality therefore gives . Equivalently, reconstruct either set from
Substituting the two given equalities into this expression gives .

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