SOLUTION: Two angles are complementary if one of them is twice the sum of other and 3. Find the angles.

Question 1161392: Two angles are complementary if one of them is twice the sum of other and 3. Find the angles.

Found 3 solutions by greenestamps, josgarithmetic, solver91311:
Answer by greenestamps(13215)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

"... twice the sum of other and 3..."

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Answer by josgarithmetic(39630)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Angle measures, x and y

y=2(x+3), "one of them" being y.

x+y=90, the two angle measures sum to 90, for them to be "complementary".

Substituting,

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Answer by solver91311(24713)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Two angles are complementary if the sum of their measures is

Let represent the measure of one of the angles, and then it is given that the other measures . Since in order to be complementary, their sum must be

Solve for and then calculate either or

John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it

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