SOLUTION: pls. help me to answer: the supplement of the angle is 8 more than twice its complement. What is the angle?

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Question 1106261: pls. help me to answer: the supplement of the angle is 8 more than twice its complement. What is the angle?
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pls. help me to answer: the supplement of the angle is 8 more than twice its complement. What is the angle?
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Let A=the angle
Supplement is 180-A
Complement is 90-A
180-A = 8+2(90-A) LHS from "the supplement is …" ; RHS from "8 more than twice its complement"


This can be solved easily to get +A+=+8+ degrees
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Check: 180-8 = 172
8+2(90-A) = 8 + 2(82) = 8+164 = 172 (ok)