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Example Question #1 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
What is the sum of the interior angles of a triangle?
The sum of the three interior angles of a triangle is degrees.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
Two of the interior angles of a triangle measure and . What is the greatest measure of any of its exterior angles?
It cannot be determined from the information given.
The interior angles of a triangle must have measures whose sum is , so the measure of the third angle must be .
By the Triangle Exterior-Angle Theorem, an exterior angle of a triangle measures the sum of its remote interior angles; therefore, to get the greatest measure of any exterior angle, we add the two greatest interior angle measures:
Example Question #1 : How To Find An Angle Of A Line
Two angles are supplementary and have a ratio of 1:4. What is the size of the smaller angle?
Since the angles are supplementary, their sum is 180 degrees. Because they are in a ratio of 1:4, the following expression could be written:
Example Question #1 : Acute / Obtuse Triangles
In a given triangle, the angles are in a ratio of 1:3:5. What size is the middle angle?
Since the sum of the angles of a triangle is , and given that the angles are in a ratio of 1:3:5, let the measure of the smallest angle be , then the following expression could be written:
If the smallest angle is 20 degrees, then given that the middle angle is in ratio of 1:3, the middle angle would be 3 times as large, or 60 degrees.
Example Question #1 : Right Triangles
The measure of 3 angles in a triangle are in a 1:2:3 ratio. What is the measure of the middle angle?
The angles in a triangle sum to 180 degrees. This makes the middle angle 60 degrees.
Example Question #3 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
Call the three angles of a triangle .
The measure of is twenty degrees greater than that of ; the measure of is thirty degrees less than twice that of . If is the measure of , then which of the following equations would we need to solve in order to calculate the measures of the angles?
The measure of is twenty degrees greater than the measure of , so its measure is 20 added to that of - that is, .
The measure of is thirty degrees less than twice that of . Twice the measure of is , and thirty degrees less than this is 30 subtracted from - that is, .
The sum of the measures of the three angles of a triangle is 180, so, to solve for - thereby allowing us to calulate all three angle measures - we add these three expressions and set the sum equal to 180. This yields the equation:
Example Question #4 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
Call the three angles of a triangle .
The measure of is forty degrees less than that of ; the measure of is ten degrees less than twice that of . If is the measure of , then which of the following equations would we need to solve in order to calculate the measures of the angles?
The measure of is forty degrees less than the measure of , so its measure is 40 subtracted from that of - that is, .
The measure of is ten degrees less than twice that of . Twice the measure of is , and ten degrees less than this is 10 subtracted from - that is, .
The sum of the measures of the three angles of a triangle is 180, so, to solve for - thereby allowing us to calulate all three angle measures - we add these three expressions and set the sum equal to 180. This yields the equation:
Example Question #4 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
Two interior angles of a triangle adds up to degrees. What is the measure of the other angle?
The sum of the three angles of a triangle add up to 180 degrees. Subtract 64 degrees to determine the third angle.
Example Question #1 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
What is of the measure of a right angle?
A right angle has a measure of . One fifth of the angle is:
Example Question #6 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
What angle is complementary to ?
To find the other angle, subtract the given angle from since complementary angles add up to .
The complementary is: