SOLUTION: 6. Two angles are complementary if their sum is ninety degrees. Suppose you have two complementary angles and the second angle is 10 degrees larger than 3 times the measure of the

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Question 1128854: 6.
Two angles are complementary if their sum is ninety degrees. Suppose you have two complementary angles and the second angle is 10 degrees larger than 3 times the measure of the first angle.
If x represents the first angle, how would you express the second angle in terms of x?

Write the equation that can be used to find the measure of each angle. DO NOT SOLVE THE EQUATION.
Answer by ikleyn(52898) About Me  (Show Source):
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If one angle is x degrees, then the other complementary angle is (90-x) degrees.


The equation is


    90-x = 3x + 10,


literally as the condition states.

Answered, solved and completed.