SOLUTION: what is the degree of measure of an angle whose complement is 40% of its supplement? could you please show your work so i know how to do it for future reference.

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Question 553099: what is the degree of measure of an angle whose complement is 40% of its supplement? could you please show your work so i know how to do it for future reference.
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Let represent the degree measure of the desired angle. Then is the degree measure of the supplement of the angle and is the degree measure of the complement of the angle.

We are given that:



Solve for .

John

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