SOLUTION: Supplementary angle of an angle is 9/4 times its complementary angle. Find the measure of the supplementary angle?

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Question 825030: Supplementary angle of an angle is 9/4 times its complementary angle. Find the measure of the supplementary angle?
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If the supplementary angle is 2.25 times wider than the complementary angle then that means it is 9/13 of the entire angle; approximately 69.2%. Multiply 180 by 0.692 to get 124.56 degrees. This can be rounded to 124.6 degrees or 125 degrees.