SOLUTION: The complement of an angle is 10 degrees. What is the measure of an angle?

Question 1093575: The complement of an angle is 10 degrees. What is the measure of an angle?

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Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Call the unknown angle
degrees
degrees

Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Supplementary angles are two angles whose sum is 180 degrees.
Complementary angles are two angles whose sum is 90 degrees.
Supplementary and complementary angles do not have to be adjacent (sharing a vertex and side, or next to), but they can be.
Answer by ikleyn(52908)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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