SOLUTION: Are adjacent angles necessarily coplanar?

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Question 210667: Are adjacent angles necessarily coplanar?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(6932) About Me  (Show Source):
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Are adjacent angles necessarily coplanar?


You can do a "show-and-tell" with this problem:

Draw a pair of adjacent angles on a sheet of
paper like this:

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Those two adjacent angles are indeed coplanar.

But now let's fold the paper along their common side, like this:

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and you can see the two angles are still adjacent,
however they are in two different planes.  Therefore
the answer is: 

Adjacent angles are not necessarily coplanar.

Edwin