Congruent Alternate Interior Angles Math
Each pair of these angles are inside the parallel lines and on opposite sides of the transversal.
Congruent alternate interior angles math. The angles that are formed on opposite sides of the transversal and inside the two lines are alternate interior angles. This work continues here with an emphasis on examining angles. If the two lines are parallel then the alternate interior angles are congruent. Alternate interior angles are congruent.
The angle pairs are on alternate sides of the transversal and they are on the interior of the two crossed lines. Alternate interior angles are two congruent angles from different parallel lines one from l i one from o n. Parallel lines are two lines on a two dimensional plane that never meet or cross. In the drawing below angles 3 and 6 are alternate interior angles as are angles 4 and 5.
Alternate interior angles are created when a transversal crosses two parallel lines. The measure of angles a and b above are both 34 so angles a and b are congruent or a b where the symbol means congruent. In a previous lesson 180 degree. Formally alternate interior angles are two interior angles which lie on different parallel lines and on opposite sides of a transversal.
The two lines that the transversal crosses are both green. Alternate interior angles interior angles are formed when a transversal passes through two lines. Congruent angles are angles that have the same measure. L a r is an alternate interior angle with a r n i a r is an alternate interior angle with a r o.
Alternate interior angles are a pair of angles on the inner side of each of those two lines but on opposite sides of the transversal. In the diagram below transversal l intersects lines m and n. Alternate interior angles theorem. Points on a perpendicular bisector of a line segment are exactly those equidistant from the segment s endpoints.
Alternate interior angles are angles that are on the inside of the two lines and on the opposite sides of the transversal. In this example these are two pairs of alternate interior angles. Prove theorems about lines and angles. 1 and 4 are a pair of alternate interior angles and 2 and 3 are another pair.
Notice the pairs of blue and pink angles. The sides of the angles do not need to have the same length or open in the same direction to be congruent they only need to have equal measures. Geometry alternate interior angles. Vertical angles are congruent.
If two lines in a plane are cut by a transversal so that any pair of alternate interior angles is congruent the lines are parallel. When two lines are crossed by another line called the transversal. Congruent angles inside parallel lines. When a transversal crosses parallel lines alternate interior angles are congruent and corresponding angles are congruent.
In this lesson students justify that alternate interior angles are congruent and use this and the vertical angle theorem previously justified to solve problems. To help you remember.