Euclid Book 1 - Proposition 16
External angle of triangle greater than either opposite angles

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To be proved: In any triangle, if one of the sides is produced, then the exterior angle is greater than either of the interior and opposite angles.

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There is a triangle ABC, wih side BC extended to D.

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