SOLUTION: look for the complement and supplement of an angle whose measure is 3x-5.

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Question 509242: look for the complement and supplement of an angle whose measure is 3x-5.
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The sum of an angle and its complement is 90 degrees. So if the angle measures , and the complement is then:



Solving for :



Supplement means the sum is 180, so:



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