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emmaiskool242

Junior Member
One of two supplementary angles measures 37 degrees less than four times the other. Find the measures of each angle.

Ok so the problem is in purple and I have no idea how you would set this up, so yeah if you could show me how to do that, I think that I could figure it out.

Mrspi

Senior Member
emmaiskool242 said:
One of two supplementary angles measures 37 degrees less than four times the other. Find the measures of each angle.

Ok so the problem is in purple and I have no idea how you would set this up, so yeah if you could show me how to do that, I think that I could figure it out.
You need to remember that if two angles are supplementary, then their measures must add up to 180.

Let x = one of the angles
Then 180 - x = the other angle

Now, let's "translate" the problem from words into mathematical notation:

one of the angles is 37 less than 4 times the other
x = 4(180 - x) - 37

Ok...there's the equation. Solve it for x, and once you know what the value of x is, you can find the measure of each of the two angles.

I hope this helps you.