A Line Crossing Two Parallel Lines Makes Alternate Angles Equal
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Let the line intersect the parallel lines and at and . Then the alternate angles at and are equal. To see this, rotate half of the figure by 180° around the midpoint of to make the alternate angles coincide.
Contributed by: Jon Perry (March 2011)
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