SOLUTION: Can you please help with this word problem. :( one angle in a triangle is double the smallest angle, and the third angle in the triangle is 5 more than four times the smallest angl

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Question 762978: Can you please help with this word problem. :( one angle in a triangle is double the smallest angle, and the third angle in the triangle is 5 more than four times the smallest angle. find the size of each angle
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Translate the description directly into symbols, variables.

"one angle" measures x.
"smallest angles", y.
x=2y.
The last angle, the "third" angle measure is 5+4y.

Triangle!
What do you have?
2y%2By%2B5%2B4y=180