SOLUTION: in isosceles triangle ABC, angle C is the vertex angle. If measure angle A is 3x + 5 and mesaure angle C = 2x, find the measure of angle B.

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Question 1052475: in isosceles triangle ABC, angle C is the vertex angle. If measure angle A is 3x + 5 and mesaure angle C = 2x, find the measure of angle B.
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Answer by ikleyn(52765)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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in isosceles triangle ABC, angle C is the vertex angle. If measure angle A is 3x + 5 and mesaure angle C = 2x, find the measure of angle B.
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If I do understand the condition correctly, then the angles A and B are base angles.
Then they are congruent and have the measure of 3x+5 each.

So, you have an equation 

(3x+5) + (3x+5) + 2x = 180.   (the sum of interior angles of a triangle . . . ).

Simplify and solve it for x.

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under the topic "Finding angles of triangles, parallelograms and rectangles".


Answer by josgarithmetic(39615)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Angle B will also be 3x+5.
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