SOLUTION: Two angles are complementary. If one angle is 5 degrees less than three times the other angle, what are the angles?

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Question 487941: Two angles are complementary. If one angle is 5 degrees less than three times the other angle, what are the angles?
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Complementary Angles add up to °.
let angles be and
given:
one angle,, is degrees less than the other angle,
....1
....2
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....1...solve for
....plug it in 2

....2..solve for

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now find




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