SOLUTION: What is the measure of the angle that has a complement which is five times the angle itself?

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Question 290677: What is the measure of the angle that has a complement which is five times the angle itself?
Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
c=5a
The big question is "what is a complement of an angle?"
5a+a=x
What does the angle and the complement add up to? It is either 90 or 180.

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