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Martin drew a pair of perpendicular lines and a pair of parallel lines. which of these statements best compares the pairs of perpendicular and parallel lines?

A: perpendicular and parallel lines have their lines extending in one direction only.

B: perpendicular and parallel lines always have a common endpoint.

C: perpendicular lines are lines that intersect at right angles, and parallel lines are lines that never meet.

D: perpendicular lines have only one point lying on them, and parallel lines have no points lying on them.

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C: perpendicular lines are lines that intersect at right angles, and parallel lines are lines that never meet.

Parallel lines are, for example, like this: = They don't intersect, and they never touch. Perpendicular, however, look like the letter L, meaning they always meet at a right angle.

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