Showing posts with label parallel postulate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label parallel postulate. Show all posts

Monday, November 28, 2011

The Parallel Postulate

In the figure below, AB and CD are parallel lines. EF is a transversal.
This is a Java Applet created using GeoGebra from www.geogebra.org - it looks like you don't have Java installed, please go to www.java.com

The parallel postulate states that given two parallel lines (on the same plane) and a transversal, their corresponding angles are congruent. Using this postulate as shown above, determine the measure of the other angles and record your observations. Make a conjecture about them.

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