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What is a name for the marked angle?

What is a name for the marked angle?-example-1

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Answer:
\angle BAD

Reason:

The arc goes from ray AB to ray AD. The two rays join at angle A which is the vertex point. When naming an angle, always use the vertex point in the middle. The order of the other two letters does not matter.

We could name this angle as
\angle BAD or
\angle DAB to mean the same exact thing. All that matters is that "A" is in the middle.

Ignore point C, and ignore ray AC entirely.

User Georg Grab
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1 vote

Answer:

(b) ∠BAD

Explanation:

An angle can be named by the names of three points. The first point is on one of the rays that form the angle; the second point is the vertex; the third point is on the other ray.

Apparently the "marked" angle is identified by the arc extending from ray AB to ray AD. Point A is the vertex of the angle, so one possible name for it is ...

∠BAD

It can also be called

∠DAB

User Vvye
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