SOLUTION: Angles 1 and 2 are supplementary. The measure of angle 1 is 40 degrees more than three times the measure of angle 2. What are the measures of the angles?

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Question 791882: Angles 1 and 2 are supplementary. The measure of angle 1 is 40 degrees more than three times the measure of angle 2. What are the measures of the angles?
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Let represent the measure of angle 2. Then the measure of angle 1 would be . The sum of the measures of two supplementary angles is 180.



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