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Head First 2D Geometry
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Head First 2D Geometry

by Stray (Lindsey Fallow), Dawn Griffiths
November 2009
Beginner
368 pages
8h 55m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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you are here 4 11
finding missing angles
Right angles often come in pairs
A right angle is a quarter turn, so two right angles add up to one
half turn—a 180º on your skateboard, assuming you land fakey
(facing the opposite way to when you started).
Slide rail
90º turn
90º turn
Skateboard
Although it doesn’t look like one, a
straight line is still an angle—exactly a
half turn, or two quarter turns.
Two right
angles sit
together on a
straight line.
The angle on a straight
line is a half-turn.
If this is a
right angle…
…this is also a
right angle.
Find the next mystery angle here…
180º
BULLET
PATH
MICKY
BENNY
FOOTPRINTS
18º
CRIME SCENE SKETCH
CASE GEO180
(ANGLES AS MEASURED
BUT DRAWING NOT TO
SCALE)
81º
86º
72º
?º
PLAN VIEW
12 Chapter 1
sharpen solution
BULLET
PATH
MICKY
BENNY
FOOTPRINTS
18º
CRIME SCENE SKETCH
CASE GEO180
(ANGLES AS MEASURED
BUT DRAWING NOT TO
SCALE)
81º
86º
72º
?º
PLAN VIEW
Find the next mystery angle here…
81º
?º
Often drawing a mini-sketch of
just the part you’re working out
makes things much clearer.
This is a right angle.
So the total angle made by these two
angles must also be a right angle.
? + 81º = 90º
? = 9º
you are here 4 13
finding missing angles
Great. Whatever. But what on earth
has working out the ...
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