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A straight road crosses two parallel railway tracks. The angle between the road and the
The first track is 95°. What is the angle between the road and the second track? Why?
[Hint: Draw a pair of parallel lines and a transversal]


Sagot :

Answer:  95 degrees

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Explanation:

I recommend drawing it out to see what's going on. See the drawing below.

In the diagram, both angles are in the northeast corner of their four-corner configurations. They are both congruent corresponding angles. So that's why the second angle is also 95 degrees.

Side note: we could replace "northeast" with any of the other directions on the compass (such as southwest). All that matters is that they are in the same configuration.

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