SOLUTION: Hey, I really need your help with this question please, it is confusing me. Find the measures of 2 complementary angles if one angle is 12 more than 2 times the other angle.

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Question 903240: Hey, I really need your help with this question please, it is confusing me.
Find the measures of 2 complementary angles if one angle is 12 more than 2 times the other angle.
Thank you

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
It's not phrased in the best way.
Call the complementary angles
and

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You are given that:

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and


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The angles are 64 degrees and 26 degrees
check:




OK

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