Parallelism is Equivalence Relation/Transitivity

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Theorem

Let $S$ be the set of straight lines in the plane.

For $l_1, l_2 \in S$, let $l_1 \parallel l_2$ denote that $l_1$ is parallel to $l_2$.


Then $\parallel$ is a transitive relation on $S$.


Proof

From Parallelism is Transitive Relation:

$l_1 \parallel l_2$ and $l_2 \parallel l_3$ implies $l_1 \parallel l_3$.

Thus $\parallel$ is seen to be transitive.

$\blacksquare$


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