SOLUTION: Please help me to answer this problem. "Two angles are complementary and the measure of one angle is 40degrees less than the measure of the other. How many degrees are in each ang

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"Two angles are complementary and the measure of one angle is 40degrees less than the measure of the other. How many degrees are in each angle?"
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Answer by nerdybill(7384) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
"Two angles are complementary and the measure of one angle is 40degrees less than the measure of the other. How many degrees are in each angle?"
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Two angles are complementary if the sum is 90 degrees.
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Let x = one of the two angles
then
x-40 = other angle
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x + x-40 = 90
x + x-40 = 90
2x = 130
x = 65 degrees
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Other angle:
x-40 = 65-40 = 25 degrees
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