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Angles are measured in degrees and written with the ° symbol. The maximum angle is 360°, which is the angle all the way around a point. Some key properties of angles are: 1) Vertically opposite angles, corresponding angles, and alternate angles are equal. Adjacent angles add up to 180°. 2) The sum of the three interior angles of any triangle is always 180°. 3) Any quadrilateral can be divided into two triangles by a diagonal line, so the sum of the interior angles of any quadrilateral is 360°. 4) The exterior angles of any polygon add up to 360° because they form a full rotation. The exterior angle of any triangle is equal to the sum

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Angles

Angles are measured in degrees and written with the ° symbol. The maximum angle is 360°, which is the angle all the way around a point. Some key properties of angles are: 1) Vertically opposite angles, corresponding angles, and alternate angles are equal. Adjacent angles add up to 180°. 2) The sum of the three interior angles of any triangle is always 180°. 3) Any quadrilateral can be divided into two triangles by a diagonal line, so the sum of the interior angles of any quadrilateral is 360°. 4) The exterior angles of any polygon add up to 360° because they form a full rotation. The exterior angle of any triangle is equal to the sum

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Angles

Angles are measured in degrees, written . The maximum angle is 360. This is the angle all
the way round a point. Half of this is the angle on a straight line, which is 10.
Related Angles
!ines A" and #$ are parallel to one another %hence the & on the lines'.
a and d are (nown as vertically opposite angles. )ertically opposite angles are e*ual. %+ and
c, e and h, f and g are also ,ertically opposite'.
g and c are corresponding angles. #orresponding angles are e*ual. %h and d, f and +, e and a
are also corresponding'.
d and e are alternate angles. Alternate angles are e*ual. %c and f are also alternate'. Alternate
angles form a -.- shape and are sometimes called -. angles-.
a and + are adjacent angles. Ad/acent angles add up to 10 degrees. %d and c, c and a, d and
+, f and e, e and g, h and g, h and f are also ad/acent'.
d and f are interior angles. These add up to 10 degrees %e and c are also interior'.
Any two angles that add up to 10 degrees are (nown as supplementary angles.
Angle Sum of a Triangle
0sing some of the a+o,e results, we can pro,e that the sum of the three angles inside any
triangle always add up to 10 degrees.
1f we ha,e a triangle, you can always draw two parallel lines li(e this2
3ow, we (now that alternate angles are e*ual. Therefore the two angles la+elled x are e*ual.
Also, the two angles la+elled y are e*ual.
4e (now that x, y and 5 together add up to 10 degrees, +ecause these together is /ust the
angle around the straight line. 6o the three angles in the triangle must add up to 10 degrees.
Angle Sum of a Quadrilateral
A *uadrilateral is a shape with 7 sides.
3ow that we (now the sum of the angles in a triangle, we can wor( out the sum of the angles
in a *uadrilateral.
8or any *uadrilateral, we can draw a diagonal line to di,ide it into two triangles. 9ach triangle
has an angle sum of 10 degrees. Therefore the total angle sum of the *uadrilateral is 360
degrees.
Exterior Angles
The exterior angles of a shape are the angles you get if you extend the sides. The exterior
angles of a hexagon are shown2
A polygon is a shape with straight sides. All of the exterior angles of a polygon add up to
360. +ecause if you put them all together they form the angle all the way round a point2
Therefore if you ha,e a regular polygon %in other words, where all the sides are the same
length and all the angles are the same', each of the exterior angles will ha,e si5e 360 : the
num+er of sides. 6o, for example, each of the exterior angles of a hexagon are 360;6 < 60.
Interior Angles
The interior angles of a shape are the angles inside it. 1f you (now the si5e of an exterior
angle, you can wor( out the si5e of the interior angle next to it, +ecause they will add up to
10 %since together they are the angle on a straight line'.
Exterior Angle of a Triangle
Angle x is an exterior angle of the triangle2
The exterior angle of a triangle is e*ual to the sum of the interior angles at the other two
,ertices. 1n other words, x < a = + in the diagram.
Proof:
The angles in the triangle add up to 10 degrees. 6o a = + = y < 10.
The angles on a straight line add up to 10 degrees. 6o x = y < 10.
Therefore y < 10 > x. ?utting this into the first e*uation gi,es us2 a = + = 10 > x <
10. Therefore a = + < x after rearranging. This is what we wanted to pro,e.
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