Linear Pair of angles
From Latin: linearis - "belonging to a line"
Try this Drag the orange dot at M.
In the figure above, the two angles ∠JKM and
∠LKM form a linear pair. They are
supplementary because they always add to 180°
and because they are
the two non-common legs form a straight line segment JKL.
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