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The measure of the angle's supplement is 50 more than five times that of its complement. Find the measure of the angle described?
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The measure of the angle's supplement is 50 more than five times that of its complement. Find the measure of the angle described? Answer by unlockmath(1688) (Show Source):
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We know that when two angles equal 180 degrees they are supplementary angles, right? So let's represent x to be the complement therefore we can write the other as 5x+50.
x + 5x+50=180 Combine terms and subtract 50 from both sides to get:
6x=130 Divide both sides by 6 to get:
x=21 2/3 degrees is one angle and the other is 158 1/3 degrees.
RJ
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