SOLUTION: One angle of a triangle is 90 degrees.If the ratio of the legs is 1:1, what are the measures (in degrees) of the two remaining angles?

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Question 547858: One angle of a triangle is 90 degrees.If the ratio of the legs is 1:1, what are the measures (in degrees) of the two remaining angles?
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If one angle of a triangle is 90, then the sum of the other two angles has to be 90 also. Since the two legs of the right triangle are equal in measure, the angles opposite the legs must also be equal in measure. So, two equal measure angles where the sum of the measures is 90.

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