SOLUTION: I hope this is in the right section, please forgive me if it isn't! My directions are: Find the measure of an angle betwen 0 degrees and 360 degrees coterminal with each given

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Question 113927: I hope this is in the right section, please forgive me if it isn't!

My directions are: Find the measure of an angle betwen 0 degrees and 360 degrees coterminal with each given angle.

One of my problems is: 482 degrees

Now, I missed half the notes my teacher had on this lesson because I was checked out of class, but I remember her saying something about subtracting or adding 360 degrees to find the answer? But I'm not completely sure.

Well, for this problem I subtracted 360 degrees from 482 and got 122 degrees. Is that the coterminal then? or is there something else I must do? When would I have to add 360 degrees?

Can someone help me with this please? Thanks in advance!
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You are correct. You simply subtract multiples of 360 (in this case you only subtracted once) to get a smaller coterminal angle. If you were to draw these angles, you would find out that they overlap each other.