One angles of an isosceles triangle is 40 degrees. What are the angles of the triangle? Give two possible sets of angles.

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Please provide an easy, short explanation for me to understand too if you can, thank you so much

Answer 1

The three angles of any triangle must total 180 degrees.

By definition, an isoceles triangle must have 2 equal sides, and therefore 2 equal angles.

Two possibilities:

1. A 40 degree angle at each side, and a 100-degree angle at the top.
2. A 40-degree angle at the top, and a 70-degree angle at each side

Draw each one--approximately to scale--so you can visualize