SOLUTION: The measure of one angle is 24 degrees greater than the measure of its compliment.What are the measures of the angles?
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Question 648280: The measure of one angle is 24 degrees greater than the measure of its compliment.What are the measures of the angles?
Answer by MathLover1(20849) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
complementary angles are angles whose measures sum to °
let's angles be and
so, .....1
given: the measure of one angle is degrees greater than the measure of its compliment
so, ........substitute it in equation 1
.....solve for
...now find
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