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linear pair

Two angles are a linear pair if the angles are adjacent and the two unshared rays form a line. Below is an example of a linear pair:

$\begin{pspicture}(0,0)(5,3) \psline{<->}(0,0)(5,0) \psline{->}(2.5,0)(4,3) \end{pspicture}$

The linear pair postulate states that two angles that form a linear pair are supplementary.

linear pair is owned by Warren Buck.

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Warren Buck. "linear pair" (version 4). PlanetMath.org. Freely available at http://planetmath.org/LinearPair.html.

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51-00 (Geometry :: General reference works (handbooks, dictionaries, bibliographies, etc.))

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