Alternate Interior Angles
In
the drawing below, angles 3 and 6 are alternate interior angles,
as are angles 4 and 5. Alternate interior angles are congruent.
Formally, alternate interior angles are two interior
angles which lie on different parallel
lines and on opposite sides of
a
transversal.
Parallel lines cut
by a transversal |
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See
also
Alternate
exterior angles, consecutive interior angles
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