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Useful Facts About Angles: The Basics

Angles add up to 180° when they share a vertex and fill one side of a line. Angles add up to 360° when they share a vertex and fill the space around a point. When two lines cross, opposite angles and corresponding angles are equal, and the angles between two parallel lines add up to 180°. The angles in any triangle sum to 180° and the angles in any polygon with n sides add up to (n-2)×180°.

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Useful Facts About Angles: The Basics

Angles add up to 180° when they share a vertex and fill one side of a line. Angles add up to 360° when they share a vertex and fill the space around a point. When two lines cross, opposite angles and corresponding angles are equal, and the angles between two parallel lines add up to 180°. The angles in any triangle sum to 180° and the angles in any polygon with n sides add up to (n-2)×180°.

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USEFUL FACTS ABOUT ANGLES

By the Maths Learning Centre, University of Adelaide

The Basics

When angles share a vertex and fill one side 𝛾


𝛽 𝛼 + 𝛽 + 𝛾 = 180°
of a line, they add to 180°. 𝛼

When angles share a vertex and fill the 𝛼 𝛽


space around a point, they add to 360°. 𝛾 𝛼 + 𝛽 + 𝛾 + 𝛿 = 360°
𝛿

𝛽
When two lines cross, opposite angles are 𝛼 𝛼
equal. 𝛽

Parallel Lines

When a line crosses parallel lines, 𝛼


alternate angles are equal. 𝛼

𝛽 𝛼
𝛽 𝛼 𝛽
When a line crosses parallel lines, 𝛽 𝛼
corresponding angles are equal. 𝛽 𝛼 𝛽

𝛼 + 𝛽 = 180°
𝛽
When a line crosses parallel lines, 𝛼
co-interior angles add to 180°.
𝛼 + 𝛽 = 180°

Shapes

The angles in any triangle add to 180°. 𝛽 𝛼 + 𝛽 + 𝛾 = 180°


𝛼 𝛾

𝛽 𝛾
The angles in any quadrilateral add to 360°. 𝛿 𝛼 + 𝛽 + 𝛾 + 𝛿 = 360°
𝛼

The angles in any polygon with 𝑛 sides add


to (𝑛 − 2) × 180°. Angle sum = (𝑛 − 2) × 180°
USEFUL FACTS ABOUT ANGLES
By the Maths Learning Centre, University of Adelaide

Triangles

The angles in any triangle add to 180°. 𝛼 𝛼 + 𝛽 + 𝛾 = 180°


𝛽 𝛾

𝛼
In a right-angled triangle, the two smaller 𝛼 + 𝛽 = 90°
angles add to 90°. 𝛽

In a triangle, the largest angle is opposite 𝛼 𝑏


𝑐 𝑎≥𝑏≥𝑐⇒𝛼≥𝛽≥𝛾
the longest side, and the smallest angle is 𝛾
𝛽
opposite the shortest side. 𝑎

In an isosceles triangle (two sides equal), 𝛼


the angles opposite the equal sides are
equal. 𝛼

60°
In an equilateral triangle (all sides equal),
the angles are all 60°. 60°
60°

Circles

𝛼
𝛼
In a circle, all the angles subtended at the
edge by the same chord are equal. 𝛼

𝛼
In a circle, the angle subtended at the
centre by a chord is twice the angle 2𝛼
subtended at the edge.

The angle subtended in a semicircle is a


right angle.

At a point on the edge of a circle, the angle


between the radius and the tangent is a
right angle.

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