Here is another activity for you to try. Take a square sheet of paper, fold it in the middle and unfold it. Fold the edges towards the centre line and unfold them. Fold the top right and bottom left corners onto the creased line to create triangles. Refer to Fig. 5.8. The triangles should not cross the crease lines. Are , and parallel to , and respectively? Why or why not?

Parallel and Intersecting Lines | A

Question 5

Here is another activity for you to try.

Take a square sheet of paper, fold it in the middle and unfold it.
Fold the edges towards the centre line and unfold them.
Fold the top right and bottom left corners onto the creased line to create triangles. Refer to Fig. 5.8.
The triangles should not cross the crease lines.
Are $a$ , $b$ and $c$ parallel to $p$ , $q$ and $r$ respectively? Why or why not?

Solution

We need to find out if the given lines are parallel.

Step 1 — Understanding the lines

Let us look at the diagram. The question asks about lines $a$ , $b$ , $c$ and $p$ , $q$ , $r$ . Lines $a$ , $b$ , and $c$ are the vertical dashed lines. These lines run from the top to the bottom of the paper. Lines $p$ , $q$ , and $r$ are the diagonal lines. These lines are the slanted edges of the folded triangles.

Diagram 1

Step 2 — Checking for parallel lines

Let us think about parallel lines. Parallel lines never meet each other. They always keep the same distance between them. Vertical lines go straight up and down. Diagonal lines are slanted lines. A vertical line and a diagonal line will always cross. They do not keep the same distance apart. So, vertical lines are not parallel to diagonal lines.

Answer

(i) No, they are not parallel.

More questions in A

Take a piece of square paper and fold it in different ways. Now, on the creases formed by the folds, draw lines using a pencil and a scale. You will notice different lines on the paper. Take any pair of lines and observe their relationship with each other. Do they meet? If they do not meet within the paper, do you think they would meet if they were extended beyond the paper?

Draw two lines on a plain sheet of paper so that they intersect. Measure the four angles formed with a protractor. Draw four such pairs of intersecting lines and measure the angles formed at the points of intersection.

What patterns do you observe among these angles?

Activity 2 Take a plain square sheet of paper (use a newspaper for this activity).

How would you describe the opposite edges of the sheet? They are _______________________ to each other.
How would you describe the adjacent edges of the sheet? The adjacent edges are _______________________ to each other. They meet at a point. They form right angles.
Fold the sheet horizontally in half. A new line is formed (see Fig. 5.7).
How many parallel lines do you see now? How does the new line segment relate to the vertical sides?
Make one more horizontal fold in the folded sheet. How many parallel lines do you see now?
What will happen if you do it once more? How many parallel lines will you get? Is there a pattern? Check if the pattern extends further, if you make another horizontal fold.
Make a vertical fold in the square sheet. This new vertical line is _______________________ to the previous horizontal lines.
Fold the sheet along a diagonal. Can you find a fold that creates a line parallel to the diagonal line?

Here is another activity for you to try.

Take a square sheet of paper, fold it in the middle and unfold it.
Fold the edges towards the centre line and unfold them.
Fold the top right and bottom left corners onto the creased line to create triangles. Refer to Fig. 5.8.
The triangles should not cross the crease lines.
Are $a$ , $b$ and $c$ parallel to $p$ , $q$ and $r$ respectively? Why or why not?

Draw a pair of lines and a transversal such that they form two distinct angles.

Fig. 5.19 has a pair of parallel lines $l$ and $m$ (what is the notation used in the figure to indicate they are parallel?) . Line t is the transversal across these two lines. $\angle a$ and $\angle b$ are corresponding angles. Take a tracing paper and trace $\angle a$ on it. Now place this tracing paper over $\angle b$ and see if the angles align exactly. You will observe that the angles match. Check the other corresponding angles in the figure using a protractor. Are all the corresponding angles equal to each other?

In Fig. 5.20, draw a transversal $t$ to the lines $l$ and $m$ such that one pair of corresponding angles is equal. You can measure the angles with a protractor.