SOLUTION: why can you take a complement of a supplementary angle, but cannot take the supplement of a complementary angle?

Question 219007: why can you take a complement of a supplementary angle, but cannot take the supplement of a complementary angle?
Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
why can you take a complement of a supplementary angle, but cannot take the supplement of a complementary angle?
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You can take the supplement of ANY angle.
If the angle is the complement of "x" it
has the form 90-x.
The supplement of 90-x is 180-(90-x) = 90+x
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Cheers,
Stan H.
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