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Pick one question: Explain why each statement is not a good definition, 10. Supplementary angles are angles that form a straight line. 11. Vertical angles are angles that are congruent. *

User Felix Hagspiel
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Here, we want to explain why the definition given about supplementary angles that form a straight line

When we talk of supplementary angles, we are refeering to angles that add up to 180

So an angle is a supplement of the other if they add up to 180

However, coincidentally, angles on a straight line are angles that add up to 180

While all angles forming a straight line are supplementary, all supplementary angles do not form a straight line

What we are saying here is that two angles may be supplementary and may not be angles that form a staright line

The definition that is given in the question is too general to work and did not consider cases where we might have angles that are strai

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