SOLUTION: Problem: Two angles are supplementary. Three times the smaller is five less than twice the larger. Find the number of degrees in each angle.

Question 147078: Problem:
Two angles are supplementary. Three times the smaller is five less than twice the larger. Find the number of degrees in each angle.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Supplementary means the angles add up to degrees
Call the larger angle
Call the smaller angle

The angles are degrees and degrees
check:

OK
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