SOLUTION: are opposite rays coplanar?

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Question 622329: are opposite rays coplanar?
Answer by MathLover1(20850) About Me  (Show Source):
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first, recall what is a ray and its opposite:
If a ray is half a line, its opposite+ray is the other half of the same line. That is, two rays are opposite rays if and only if they radiate from the same point and in opposite directions. Or, to put it another way, the angle between opposite rays is 180 degrees.
Recall that, by definition, two objects are coplanar if they both lie in the same plane. Opposite rays lie on same line; consequently, they lie in same plane too.

So, they are coplanar.