SOLUTION: find the value of each variable. there is a right triangle. it gives two angles (2x-2)degrees and (x+5)degrees.

SOLUTION: find the value of each variable. there is a right triangle. it gives two angles (2x-2)degrees and (x+5)degrees.

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Question 219130: find the value of each variable.
there is a right triangle. it gives two angles (2x-2)degrees and (x+5)degrees.
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I'm assuming that both of these angles are the acute angles. If so, then these angles are complementary. This means that they add to 90 degrees. In other words,

Simply solve the equation above to find 'x' which will then give you your angles.
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