SOLUTION: I'm so stuck on this one.. never have been good at geometry and algebra. I appreciate the help. Find the measures of the three angles of a triangle if the largest is 14 degrees

Question 53349This question is from textbook Elementary and Intermediate Algebra
: I'm so stuck on this one.. never have been good at geometry and algebra. I appreciate the help.
Find the measures of the three angles of a triangle if the largest is 14 degrees less than three times the smallest, and the other angle is 4 degrees more than the smallest. This question is from textbook Elementary and Intermediate Algebra

Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Find the measures of the three angles of a triangle if the largest is 14 degrees less than three times the smallest, and the other angle is 4 degrees more than the smallest.
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Let the smallest have measure "x".
Then the largest measure is "3x-14"
The 3rd angle has measure "x+4"
EQUATION:
The sum of the angles is 180
x+3x-14+x+4=180
5x-10=180
5x=190
x=38 degrees (measure of smallest)
3x-14=100 degrees (measure of largest)
x+4=42 degrees (3rd angle measure)
Cheers,
Stan H.

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