SOLUTION: How would you solve / set up this problem ? an angle is twenty-seven degrees less then its complement.

SOLUTION: How would you solve / set up this problem ? an angle is twenty-seven degrees less then its complement.

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Question 217788: How would you solve / set up this problem ? an angle is twenty-seven degrees less then its complement.
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
How would you solve / set up this problem ? an angle is twenty-seven degrees less then its complement.
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Let the angle be "x".
Its complement is "90-x".
Equation:
x = (90-x)-27)
x = 63-x
2x = 63
x = 31.5 degrees
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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