SOLUTION: The measure of an angle is one third the measure of its supplement. Find the measures of the angles? 🙈Please help.

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Question 907635: The measure of an angle is one third the measure of its supplement. Find the measures of the angles? 🙈Please help.

Answer by MathLover1(20855)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


let's angles be and its supplement

supplementary angles - two angles that add to degrees:
so, we have .eq.1.....
if the measure of is one third the measure of its supplement , than we have ....eq.2
start with
...eq.1.....substitute from eq.2






now find
....eq.2




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