SOLUTION: If the complement of an angle is one-tenth of the supplement of the angle, find the measure of the angle.

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Question 264171: If the complement of an angle is one-tenth of the supplement of the angle, find the measure of the angle.
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If the complement of an angle is one-tenth of the supplement of the angle, find the measure of the angle.
Let x be the unknown angle. Then x's complement is 90-x and its supplement is 180 - x. So we have:
90-x = (1/10)*(180-x)
90-x = 18 - .1*x
Solve the above for x.