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Vertical angles are a pair of angles with the following two properties:
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their sides are determined by the same lines;
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they share a vertex but not a side.
The vertical angle theorem states that vertical angles are congruent.
Suppose that the segments and meet at a point .
Clearly, and form a linear pair, as do and .
Since two angles in a linear pair add up to :
A simple subtraction and rearrangement gives us , which means that .
The same argument may be applied to any pair of vertical angles, and so we see that vertical angles are congruent.




