Unit 2, Parallel and

Perpendicular Lines
2-1 Parallel Lines

Transversal: A line that

Parallel Lines:Lines
intersects two or more
with the exact same
parallel lines
slope that will never
(Intersects them at the
touch each other.
same angle)
• Same Side: Angles formed on the same side of a line—1,3 are same
side: Should be supplementary
• Corresponding: Angles that are in the same position of another
parallel line. (1 and 5 are corresponding): Should be congruent
• Interior Angles: Angles formed on the inside of the pair of parallel
lines
• Exterior Angles: Angles formed on the outside of the pair of parallel
lines.
• Alternate angles: On the opposite sides of the line.
Needed
Theorems
• SSIA: Same Side Interior Angles are
supplementary (add up to 180) if the
lines are parallel

• Alternate Interior Angles: Alternate

Interior angles are congruent if the
lines are parallel
• Corresponding Angles:
Corresponding angles are congruent
if the lines are parallel
• Alternate Exterior Angles: Alternate
exterior angles are congruent if the
lines are parallel
Guided Practice

• 1. If 1 is 120 degrees, what

would 8 be and why?
• Prove the Corresponding Angles
theorem. Given that the lines
are parallel, prove that 2 is equal
to 6.
Find the missing angles and WHY.
2-3 Parallel Lines and Triangle Sums
• Remember, if lines are parallel they never intersect. So if two lines are
parallel to each other, they either both have to be parallel to the same
line, or they are both not parallel to it.
• So if two lines intersect, they can’t both be parallel to a third line.
• Also, if you have a line, and another point outside that line, only one
line runs through that outside point that is parallel to the line.
• An triangle’s interior angles always adds up to 180.
• So if you know two of the angles of a triangle, you
know the third.
• (Triangle Sum Thorem)
GP: Prove the Triangle Sum Theorem
• The measure of each exterior angle
of a triangle equals the sum of the
measures of its two remote interior
angles
• Triangle Exterior Angle Theorem
GP
2-4 Slope of Parallel and Perpendicular Lines
• Reminders:
• Slope is how a line runs through a coordinate plane.
• Its calculation is rise/run or (change in y/change in x) (Y2-Y1)/(X2-X1).
• We combine the slope with where the line intersects y as a y intercept formula.
• Y=mx+b . (X where the point for the line is in x, m is the slope, and b is the
place where it intercepts y)
• In parallel line, the slope is exactly the same. The only difference is in
the y intercept.
• In perpendicular lines, the slope is the inverse of each other. This
means that if you multiply them by each other, you get -1
GP
• The slope of line k is -5/4
• The slope of line n is -4/3
• Are they parallel? Are they perpendicular?
• The slope of line j is -3/2, the slope of line k is 2/3?
• Are they parallel? Are they perpendicular?
• What is the slope of these lines? And y
intercept formula?
• Are they parallel?
GP:
• Find the equation of a line perpendicular to y=2x +4, that passes
through point (3,4)