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Question 381512: Complementary angles. Two angles are complementary. The measure of one angle is 1.5 times the measure of the other. Find the measure of each angle.
Please help me with this. All I have so far is x+1.5y=90

Answer by Fombitz(32388)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First, the angles are complementary, so,

Then one is 1.5 times the other,

Now subsitute the second equation into the first.

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