SOLUTION: A streamer is hung horizontally across the top of a rectangular room, from the upper northwest corner to the center of the ceilng. The streamer forms an angle of 65.3 degrees with

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Question 601113: A streamer is hung horizontally across the top of a rectangular room, from the upper northwest corner to the center of the ceilng. The streamer forms an angle of 65.3 degrees with the westt wall. What is the measure of the angle formed by the streamer and the north wall?
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Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The west wall and the north wall form a right angle. So this angle is 90 degrees.


So if the unknown angle is x, then

x+65.3 = 90


Use this equation to solve for x.

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