Math Postulates
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- Postulate 1
- Two points determine a unique straight line.
- Postulate 2
- A straight line extends indefinitely far in either direction.
- Postulate 3
- A circle may be drawn with any given center and any given radius.
- Postulate 4
- All right angles are equal.
- Postulate 5
- Given a line and a point P not on that line, there exists in the plane of P and n and through P one and only one line m, which does not meet the given line n.
- Postulate 6
- Things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.
- Postulate 7
- If equals be added to equals, the sums are equal.
- Postulate 8
- If equals be subtracted from equals, the remainders are equal.
- Postulate 9
- Figures that can be made to coincide are equal (congruent).
- Postulate 10
- The whole is greater that any part.