SOLUTION: A parallelogram has two obtuse angles and two acute angles. Of the measure of one of the obtuse angles is 110°, what is the measure , in degrees , of one of the acute angles

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Question 1032736: A parallelogram has two obtuse angles and two acute angles. Of the measure of one of the obtuse angles is 110°, what is the measure , in degrees , of one of the acute angles
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The opposite obtuse angle is also 110°
There are a total of 360° for the interior angles of a paralellogrm
The total of the two acute angles is 360 -(110+110)
360 - 220
140
So each of the acute angles is 1/2 of 140 or 70 degrees.