Geometry: Common Core (15th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0133281159
ISBN 13: 978-0-13328-115-6

Chapter 3 - Parallel and Perpendicular Lines - 3-1 Lines and Angles - Lesson Check - Page 143: 8

Answer

Coplanar is included to make the definition precise.

Work Step by Step

Skew lines do not intersect but are not coplanar, so specifying that parallel lines are coplanar is necessary to differentiate parallel lines from skew lines.
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