Exercise 49 Page 386

Start by drawing two lines that intersect once.

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Let's begin by drawing two arbitrary lines that intersect.

Since these are not parallel, or coincidental, they will intersect each other once. We can continue by drawing a third line in our diagram. Let's draw this additional line so that it intersects each of the existing lines once.

Notice that the three coplanar lines have a total of three intersection points. Now, we can add a fourth line and make it intersect each of the other lines once.

Looking at our four coplanar lines, we can see that they intersect 6 times. As each line intersects all other lines once, six is the greatest number of intersection points we can have.

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