Question: Exercise 2.1.8. Given triangle AABC, construct a parallel to BC at A. (How would we do this?) Use this construction to show that Playfair's Postulate

Exercise 2.1.8. Given triangle AABC, construct a parallel to BC at A. (How would we do this?) Use this construction to show that Playfair's Postulate (or Euclid's fifth) implies that the angle sum in a triangle is 180 degrees, namely, equal to two right angles. (The converse to this statement is also true: If the angle sum of a triangle is always 180 degrees, then Playfair's Postulate is true. For a proof see [41], [pages 21-23].)

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