Angles are whatwe get when we put two
rays together with the same endpoint.
They are made up of a vertex, the shared
endpoint, and two sides, the rays. We have
ways of measuring, naming, and comparing
angles.
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When we namean angle, the vertex must
always go in the middle. Once an angle is
drawn, it makes two sections: the interior,
inside of the angle, and the exterior,
outside of the angle.
To measure anangle, we use degrees. When we
want to indicate the measure of an angle, we
put m in front of the angle’s name.
A circle has 360 degrees, so one degree is 1/360
of a circle. We often measure angles with a
protractor, and this is related to a new postulate.
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Just like distancetells us how long a segment is
by subtracting the coordinates of its endpoints,
we can find the measure of an angle by
subtracting the numbers that go with its rays on
a protractor.