Consider the spheres shown in Figure 7.76.

Figure  7.76

a. Explain what is meant by a great circle on a sphere.
b. Do one or both of the lettered curves in the figure at the right above seem to be lines?
c. In Euclidean geometry, we say that a line has no endpoints. Does this property apply to lines on a sphere?

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