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Let $A_1,\dots ,A_m$ be random subsets of a common ground set. If every pairwise union $A_i\cup A_j$ takes values in a fixed family $\mathcal{A}$ of sets of cardinality at most $k$, then Shearer's inequality and the fact that a pair of bits with prescribed OR has at most three possibilities give

Let $\mathcal{Q}$ be the set of valid quintuples and choose $(A_1,\dots ,A_5)$ uniformly from $\mathcal{Q}$. ThenApply Shearer's inequality to the ten pairs $\{i,j\}\subseteq [5]$. Every index occurs in four pairs, so

Put $U_{ij}=A_i\cup A_j$. Since $U_{ij}\in \mathcal{A}$, it has cardinality $k$. For each element of $U_{ij}$, its membership bits in $(A_i,A_j)$ are one of $(1,0),(0,1),(1,1)$; outside $U_{ij}$ they are forced to be $(0,0)$. Thus at most $3^k$ ordered pairs have any prescribed union. The chain rule for information entropy, conditional entropy, and the support bound for information entropy givebecause every $U_{ij}$ belongs to $\mathcal{A}$. There are ten pairs, henceExponentiating proveswhich is the five-variable case of the entropy bound for pairwise-union tuples.