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Take any quadrilateral, say ABCD , Divide it into two triangles, by drawing a diagonal. You get six angles 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. Use the angle sum property of a triangle and argue how the sum of the measures of and amount to `180^@ + 180^@ = 360^@`.

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