document.write( "Question 325732: In a right triangle, if one acute angle has measure 6x-10 and the other has measure 2x-4, find the larger of these two angles. \n" ); document.write( "

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. Therefore, in a right triangle, where one of the angles measures

, the sum of the other two angles must be

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and then substitute back into

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