SOLUTION: The measure of one angle is three times the measure of its complement find the measure of both angles

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Question 645917: The measure of one angle is three times the measure of its complement find the measure of both angles
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Let represent the measure of the angle. Then, because we know that the sum of an angle and its complement is 90 degrees, we can represent the measure of the complement by .

We are given that:



Solve for , then calculate

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