SOLUTION: Two angles are complementary. The suma of the first angle plus twice the second angles is 148. Find the measure of the angles.

Question 672208: Two angles are complementary. The suma of the first angle plus twice the second angles is 148. Find the measure of the angles.
Answer by neatmath(302) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Let one angle be

Then the complement of that angle is simply

So, from the given information, we have:

So the measures of the 2 angles are 32 degrees and 58 degrees.

I hope this helps! :)

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