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Adjacent Angles


AdjacentAngles

Adjacent angles are two angles having the same vertex and one side in common, with disjoint interiors. If their noncommon sides are opposite rays, the adjacent angles form a linear pair and are supplementary angles.


See also

Angle, Linear Pair, Ray, Side, Supplementary Angles, Vertex

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References

Kirk, D. "Angles." §10.2 in Contemporary Mathematics. Houston, TX: OpenStax, 2023. https://openstax.org/books/contemporary-mathematics/pages/10-2-angles.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Adjacent Angles." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/AdjacentAngles.html

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