What is the complement of an angle whose measure is 32 degrees?

Question

What is the complement of an angle whose measure is 32 degrees?

Answer 1

In Geometry the complement of an angle is the angle whose measure added to the first angle will be 90°.

So we ask ourselves, What number added to 32 equals 90. We translate this into the equation

n + 32 = 90. In order to solve we subtract 32 from both sides

-32 -32

n = 58. Then we plug that back in to our equations to check.

58 + 32 =90

Our answer is 58°

The next type of angles you will learn about will be SUPPLEMENTARY angles. Supplementary angles add up to 180° (a straight line).

C comes before S in the alphabet so Complementary angles add to 90° while supplementary angles add to 180°