Math Vocab

Question 1

Parallel Lines, what are they?

Answer 1

• lie in the same plane but never intersect, no matter how far they extend.
• are coplanar lines that do not intersect

Question 2

what is congruent?

Answer 2

• figures have the same size and shape.

Question 3

What does corresponding mean?

Answer 3

• means similar in position, purpose, or form.

Question 4

What is interior?

Example: A painter uses interior paint for the inside of a house.

Answer 4

• a pair of lines is the region between the two lines.

Question 5

What is exterior?

Example: Two lines crossed by a transversal form four exterior angles.

Answer 5

• on the outside or in aan outer region.

Question 6

What is a postulate?

Answer 6

• is a statement that is accepted as true without being proven true.

Question 7

What are skew lines?

Answer 7

• are noncoplanar; they are not parallel and do not intersect.

Question 8

What are parallel planes?

Answer 8

• are planes that do not intersect.

Question 9

What are alternate exterior angles?

Answer 9

• are nonadhacent exterior angles that lie on opposite sides of the transversal.

Question 10

What are alternate interior angles?

Answer 10

• are nonadjacent interior angles that lie on opposite sides of transversal.

Question 11

What are same-side interior angles?

Answer 11

• are interior angles that lie on the same side of the transversal.

Question 12

What are corresponding angles?

Answer 12

• lie on the same side of a transversal t and in corresponding positions.

Question 13

What is a transitive?

TRANSITIVE:

if A –> b

and B –> C

then A –> C

Answer 13

• describes the property where one element in relation to a second element and the second in relation to the third implies the first element is in relation to the third element.

Question 14

What is a scalene triangle?

Answer 14

• None of the sides are equal the same.

Question 15

What is a isosceles triangle?

Answer 15

• Only two sides are egual the same and the third is different
• Two sides are congruent

Question 16

What is a Equilateral Triangle?

Answer 16

• All the sides are the same.
• They equal the same.

Question 17

What is a Hypotenuse?

and

What is a Leg?

Answer 17

1. are not of a right angle.
2. are of a right angle.

Question 18

what is a side, side, side?

Answer 18

• three sides of a triangle that are congruent to another three sides of a different triangle.
• There for: the two triangles are congruent

Question 19

What is side, angle, side?

Answer 19

• Two sides and the included angle of one triangle are congruent to the two sides and the included angle of another triangle.
• There for they are congruent.

Question 20

What is angle, side, angle?

Answer 20

• Two angles and the inculded side of a triangle are congruent to two angles and the included side of another triangle.
• There for: They are congruent.

Question 21

What is angle, angle, angle?

Answer 21

• Two angles and a nonincluded side of a triangle that is congruent to another two angles and a nonincluded side of a different triangle.
• There for: They are congruent