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Question 921727: an isosceles triangle has a vertex angle of 40 degrees.what is the measure of the base angle?
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

an isosceles triangle is a triangle that has sides of equal length=>
base angles are equal too
if base angle is and a vertex angle of degrees, then




.........the measure of the base angle

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