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They aren't parallel because the intersections with Via La Playa do not make equal alternate interior, alternate exterior angles, or corresponding angles.

Step-by-step explanation:

Angle a is 140 degrees since it and 40 degrees are supplementary. The angle supplementary to 130 degrees is 70 degrees. All of the vertical angles are congruent.

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!