A surveyor lays out a traverse with three vertices as shown. How can deductive reasoning be used to determine whether the traverse “closes”?


This traverse closes if and only if the sum of the measures of the angles in it is 180°.
30° 46' 3" + 70° 14' 40" + 78° 59' 17" = 180°. So it closes.

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