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We're the anti-meme community where the joke is that there isn't one, and by explaining that, we've ruined the whole thing, but we all find the collective misery hilarious.
The music of comedy is more important than the joke itself.
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That one is quite simple. On the sketch, you get
w+x+y+z=360º
Making the substitution with x+y=w+z, you get
w+w+z+z=360º <=> 2(w+z)=360º <=> w+z=180º
Proving AOB is a line, because the sketch provides, that w+z is an angle of AOB.
I am pretty sure, you were not asking for the proof, but I wanted to do it anyways. Does a genuine proof count as an anti meme?
Now you're thinking with angles!
Wait but you can't just sub x+y with w+z. (Its given, my brain forgot about it)
I mean, could have specified that at the start
how do you know that x+y=w+z? isn't that already assuming that they are equal? what if they're one degree off?
As the teacher would tell you: read the entire problem before answering! (It says so in the problem)
dammit nothing changes 😂
Because we read the question: if x+y=w+z, prove...
The problem asks us to make this assumption.
But how do you know it's 360? If it wasnt a line, it could be 359.999 Or lets say 350, then w+z is 175.
The 360-ness you take is from the point of view where you already expect it to be a line.
Because all the angles surrounding a point always add up to 360
You can also say that since ABC and D are all equally distant from O, so they all fall exactly on a circle with O as the center point.