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Thursday, June 17, 2010

Explain Ray in Geometry

Let us study about Ray,

A ray is also a piece of a line, except that it has only one endpoint and continues forever in one direction. It could be thought of as a half-line with an endpoint. It is named by the letter of its endpoint and any other point on the ray. The symbol → written on top of the two letters is used to denote that ray. This is ray AB (Figure 1).





Figure1

Ray AB.


It is written as

This is ray CD (Figure 2 ).





Figure 2

Ray CD.


It is written as or

Note that the nonarrow part of the ray symbol is over the endpoint.

Hope the above explanation helped you.

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