SOLUTION: how do you find the x and y vaules of a paralleogram? for example i have a rectangle and in the top left there is 2x+2 and in the bottom left its 112 degrees , the upper left is bl

Question 840864: how do you find the x and y vaules of a paralleogram? for example i have a rectangle and in the top left there is 2x+2 and in the bottom left its 112 degrees , the upper left is blank but the bottom right has y degrees how would i solve that?
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I believe this is your parallelogram.
It is not a rectangle, because a rectangle is a parallelogram with four angles, and this parallelogram has a angle.

In a parallelogram,
opposite angles are congruent (same measure), and
adjacent angles are supplementary (their measures add up to .
So,

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