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Question 513248: I am trying to help my daughter with the following question that I don't know how to solve.
Twenty more than five times the measure of an angle is 60 degrees. What is the measure of the angle?
Answer by solver91311(24713) About Me  (Show Source):
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Let represent the measure of the angle. Then 5 times the measure of the angle is , and 20 more than that is . "Is" means "equals", so:



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