This is a wonderful puzzle I found in the puzzle collection of The Guardian newspaper, the original source being Martin Gardner. The beauty of this puzzle is that one needs to use simple rules of geometry and we do not need any trigonometry at all.

Illustration for Puzzle #103

Please have a look at the figure above. Prove that angle C in the illustration equals the sum of angles A and B.

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Happy angling!