SOLUTION: if two angles are supplementary and the larger angle is 20 degrees less then three times the the smaller angle find the measure of each angle

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Question 343341: if two angles are supplementary and the larger angle is 20 degrees less then three times the the smaller angle find the measure of each angle
Answer by mananth(16946) About Me  (Show Source):
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let smaller angle be x
the supplement will be 180-x
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180-x =3x-20
3x+x=180+20
4x =200
/4
x= 50 deg.
the other angle = 180-x
=180-50 = 130 deg.