SOLUTION: an angle is 40 degrees greater in measure than its supplement, what is the measures of the angles?

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Question 354735: an angle is 40 degrees greater in measure than its supplement, what is the measures of the angles?
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Let represent the measure of the angle. Then represents the measure of the supplement. The sum of the measures of two supplementary angles is , so:



Solve for , then calculate .

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