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Question

The measure of an angle is forty-four times the measure of its complementary angle. What is the measure of each angle?

Answer 1

Hello Mekhi!

Complementary angles add up to 90°, so the easiest way to do this is with trial and error. If you're a fan of formulas, though, this might help with similar future problems: a stands for the angle.

a + 44a = 90

(44+1 more = 45, so...)

45a = 90

I'll let you do the last step, where you divide each side by 45. :)

For any future problems with a similar setup, you can use the same formula and just put the new number in instead of 44.

I hope that helps!