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Question 454990: how do you show your work for the question?
find one angle with positive measure and one angle with negative measure coterminal with -310.

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20060) About Me  (Show Source):
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how do you show your work for the question?
find one angle with positive measure and one angle with negative measure coterminal with -310°
First we draw the picture of -310°. We start at
the right side of the x-axis, then swing downward
and around in the CLOCKWISE direction through 310°,
as shown by the black CLOCKWISE arc below:

  

Notice that 310° just lacks 50° being 360°, since 
360°-310° = 50° so the positive angle 50° measured in the 
COUNTER-CLOCKWISE direction is coterminal with -310°, as 
shown by the COUNTER-CLOCKWISE red arc below:

 

So a positive angle coterminal with -310° is 50°.

To find a negative angle coterminal with -310, we
just need to go around 360° more in the CLOCKWISE 
direction like this:



which means we just add -360° to -310° and get -670°.

So a negative angle coterminal with -310° is -670°.

Edwin