I need help with this question! I don’t understand this mess at all.

so line ab is parrallel and so is xy it is asking you to prove that angle 8 + angle 9 = 180
so since they are parrallel 8 is equal to 12 or you could do 9 is equal to 5 then you can see that they sit on the same straight line so angle9 + angle8 = 180 degrees