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- A straight line can be drawn between two points
- A finite line can be extended infinitely in both directions
- A circle can be drawn with any center and any radius
- All right angles are equal to each other
- Given a line and a point not on the line, only one line can be drawn from the point parallel to the line
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- Things that equal the same thing also equals one another
- If equals are added to equals, then the wholes are equal.
- If equals are subtracted from equals, then the remainders are equal.
- Things that coincide one another equal one another.
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- A point is that which has no point (Euclid)
- A point has no size
- It is used to locate position in the plane
- It is named by using a capital letter
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- A line is made up of an infinite number of points
- A line is assumed to be straight
- A line has infinite length and no thickness
- Two points are needed to define a line
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- A plane has length and width
- A plane has no thickness
- Need a minimum of three non-collinear points to define a plane
- Non-collinear= does not lie on a line
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- A ray has one fixed endpoint and continues to infinity in the other direction
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- A line segment has two fixed endpoints
- The order of the letters used in naming the line segment is unimportant
- The length of a line segment can be denoted in two ways
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- Congruent means coinciding at all points when superimposed
- We will study congruent angles, triangles, and segments, etc.
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- An angle is formed by two rays that have a common endpoint, provided that the two rays are non-collinear.
- The common endpoint is called the vertex of the angle.
- The two rays are called the sides of the angle.
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- Two angles are adjacent when they are joined by another angle
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- The bisector of an angle is a rau that divides the angle into two congruentn angles.
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- If points A, B, and C are collinear, and B isd between A and C, then AB+BC=AC
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- A square is a quadrilateral with four congruaent sides and four angles each equal to 90°'s.
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- Parallel lines are two lines in the same plane (coplanar) that never intersect.
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- Perpendicular lines are two lines that intersect at a 90° angle.
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- Skew lines are two lines that are not coplanar and never intersect.
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- A right angle is an angle measuring 90°
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- An acute angle is an angle that measures greater than 0°, and is less than 90°
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- An obtuse angle is a angle whose measure is more than 90°, but less than 180°.
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- A reflex angle is an angle that measures greater than 180°, but less than 360°.
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- Two angles are complementary if they have a sum of 90°.
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- Vertical angles are formed when two lines intersect.
- They have a common vertex but no common side.
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- two angles form a linear pair if they share a common vertex and a common side and their noncommon sides form a line.
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- A right triangle is a triangle that has a right angle (90°).
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- An acute triangle is a triangle in which all three angles are acute (or below 90°)
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- An obtuse triangle is a triangle in which one angle is obtuse (measuring more than 90°)
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- A scalene triangle is a triangle that has no congruent sides.
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- An equilateral triangle is a triangle that has all three congruent sides.
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- An isosceles triangle is a triangle in which two of its sides are congruent.
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- A straight angle is an angle whose measure is 180°
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- Two angles form a linear pair if they share a common ray between them and their non-common rays form a line
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- A statement accepted without proof
- (always written in the form: if..........then)
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- If two angles form a linear pair then they are supplementary angles
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- The reverse order of a conjecture
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Vertical Angles Conjecture |
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- If two lines intersect, then the vertical angles are congruent.
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Corresponding Angles Conjecture |
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- If two lines are cut by a transversal then the corresponding angles are congruent.
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The Alternate Interior Angles Conjecture |
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- If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal then the alternate interior angles are congruent.
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- If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, then the alternate exterior angles are congruent.
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- If two parallel lines are cut by a tranversal, then the consecutive interior angles are supplementary angles.
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- If two parallel lines are cut by a transversal, then the consecutive exterior angles are supplementary angles.
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- A polygon is a plane, closed figure that is bound by straight lines.
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- A diagonal is a line that connects two non-consecutive vertices in a polygon
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- A polygon is convex if all its diagonals lie insig=de the polygon
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- A polygon is concave if at least one of its diagonals lie outside of the polygon.
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- A regular polygon is a polygon in which all sides are congruent and all angles are congruent
Regular Triangle=equilateral triangle |
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- The sum of the interior angles of a polygon with n sides is (n-2)×180°
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- A trapezoid is a quadrilateral with one pair of opposite sides parallel.
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- Two pairs of consecutive interior angles that are supplementary.
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- The line segment joining the midpoints of the two non-parallel sides of the trapezoid.
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- A kite is a quadrilateral with two pairs of congruent adjacent sides and no parallel sides.
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- Two pairs of congruent adjacent sides.
- The diagonals of a kite are perpendicular.
- The longer diagonal bisects the shorter diagonal of the kite.
- The angles at the end of the shorter diagonal are congruent.
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A rhombus is a parallelogram in which all four sides are congruent. |
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A rectangle is a parallelogram in which all the angles are equal to 90° |
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A square is a rectangle in which all four sides are congruent. |
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- the center of a circumcircle
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- A polyhedron is a solid in which all the faces are polygons
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- A prism is a solid in which two of it's faces, called the bases, are congruent and parallel and all the side faces are parallelograms (rectangles)
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