In this video, you will learn:
The rules of alternate exterior anglesHow to identify alternate exterior angles.
How to use the rules of alternate exterior angles to find missing angles.
When do we have alternate exterior angles?
Alternate exterior angles are created when you have two lines and a transversal crosses both of those lines. Sometimes those two lines are parallel and sometimes they aren’t.
Imagine two lines, line a and line b that are parallel to each other.
This line intersecting the two parallel lines is the transversal.
I like to think of this as a hamburger with the meat in between the two lines and the buns are where the alternate exterior angles will be found.
The exterior is on the outside. So I will mark these in different colors. You have an alternate exterior angle here so I will call them angle 1 and angle 2 and they are your alternate exterior angles.
Now I’m going to mark another angle. I’m going to mark 3 here and 4 here and those two angles are alternate exterior angles. Now there is something different about these angles.
When you have two parallel lines and a transversal these alternate exterior angles are also congruent to each other and angles 1 and 3 are linear pairs so I’m going to throw out some numbers.
So angle 1 will be 130 degrees. So angle 2 down here will also be 130 degrees since they are alternate exterior angles and a linear pair with angle 4.
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