document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=95856>Question 95856</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> To support a young tree, you attach wires from the trunk to the ground. The obtuse angle the wire makes with the ground is supplementary to the acute angle the wire makes, and it is four times as large. Find the measures of the angles. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "acute angles = less than 90, and obtuse is more than 90.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = acute<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4x = obtuse<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x + 4x = 180<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5x = 180<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = 36<BR>\n" );
document.write( "4(36) = 144<BR>\n" );
document.write( "acute angle = 36<BR>\n" );
document.write( "obtuse angle = 144<BR>\n" );
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