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Ms. Wheeler asks her students to look at their desks. What do the desks represent inEuclidean geometry?

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To determine the what desk represents in Euclidean geometry?

Euclidean geometry, sometimes called parabolic geometry, is a geometry that follows a set of propositions that are based on Euclid's five postulates

The most basic terms of geometry are a point, a line, and a plane. A point has no dimension (length or width), but it does have a location

In its rough outline, Euclidean geometry is the plane and solid geometry commonly taught in secondary schools

“A point is that which has no part” and “a line is a length without breadth.” Proceeding from these terms, he defined further ideas such as angles, circles, triangles, and various other polygons and figures.

For example, an angle was defined as the inclination of two straight lines, and a circle was a plane figure consisting of all points that have a fixed distance (radius) from a given centre.

Hence in Euclidean geometry the desk represent the plane

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