Railway lines with sleepers? Lines of latitude crossed by a line of longitude?
Chat with our AI personalities
Sure. Just as long as the transversal is perpendicular to the parallel lines.
They are if parallel lines are cut by a transversal that's perpendicular to them.
Any line that is not parallel to the given lines. The transversal that contains the shortest distance between the two parallel lines, is perpendicular to them.
a transversal line If a transversal intersects two parallel lines, then the alternate interior angles are congruent.
Transversal lines are not parallel and so have a gradient that is different to that of the given lines.