SOLUTION: I am trying to help my daughter with the following question that I don't know how to solve. Twenty more than five times the measure of an angle is 60 degrees. What is the measur

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Twenty more than five times the measure of an angle is 60 degrees. What is the measure of the angle?

Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!


Let represent the measure of the angle. Then 5 times the measure of the angle is , and 20 more than that is . "Is" means "equals", so:



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