SOLUTION: do you know how to draw an angle with the given measures in standard positions? if the number the give me is -420 degrees?

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Question 199538: do you know how to draw an angle with the given measures in standard positions? if the number the give me is -420 degrees?
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
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do you know how to draw an angle with the given measures in standard positions? if the number the give me is -420 degrees?

It is indicated by the blue curved line in the graph below:

 

Notice that -420° means 420° of rotation in the clockwise
direction. 

You start at about the point 1 on the x-axis.  Then you swing around
420° clockwise as indicated by the blue curved line.  420° is more
than 360° so it's more than one swing around, for it swings around
one whole turn and ends up in the fourth quadrant 60° below the x-axis
because 420°-360°=60°

Edwin