SOLUTION: To support a young tree, you attach wires from the trunk to the ground. The obtuse angle the wire makes with the ground is supplementary to the acute angle the wire makes, and it i
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Question 95856: To support a young tree, you attach wires from the trunk to the ground. The obtuse angle the wire makes with the ground is supplementary to the acute angle the wire makes, and it is four times as large. Find the measures of the angles. Answer by elima(1433) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! Remember supplementary angles are angles whose sum is 180.
acute angles = less than 90, and obtuse is more than 90.
x = acute
4x = obtuse
x + 4x = 180
5x = 180
x = 36
4(36) = 144
acute angle = 36
obtuse angle = 144
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