SOLUTION: Directions: Setting Up and Solving an Algebraic Equations One of the angles of a triangle has a measure of 40degrees. Find the measures of the other two angles if the difference

Question 408707: Directions: Setting Up and Solving an Algebraic Equations
One of the angles of a triangle has a measure of 40degrees. Find the measures of the other two angles if the difference between their measures is 10 degrees.
My work
c=angles
2c-10=40
2c=50
c=25
Help please!!!
Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Not quite. If c and c-10 are the angles, then their sum must be 140, not 40.

2c - 10 = 140

2c = 150 --> c = 75, so the other two angles are 75 and 65 (degrees).
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