SOLUTION: Please help me solve my homework: if angle a is 8 degrees less than three times angle b. If placed side by side they form a straight angle, find each angle

SOLUTION: Please help me solve my homework: if angle a is 8 degrees less than three times angle b. If placed side by side they form a straight angle, find each angle

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Question 936937: Please help me solve my homework: if angle a is 8 degrees less than three times angle b. If placed side by side they form a straight angle, find each angle
Answer by rothauserc(4718) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a = 3b - 8
we are given that
a + b = 180
substitute for a
3b -8 +b = 180
4b = 188
b = 47 degrees and
a = 180 - 47 = 133 degrees
therefore we have
angle a is 133 degrees and angle b is 47 degrees

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