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12-year-old-poet

12-year-old-poet

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I copied and pasted this "Explain the methods used to compute the measure of complementary and supplementary angles."
I do not understand what it is asking me to do. Can you explain it?
 
i just don't understand what it wants. It says that but nothing else at all.
 
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12-year-old-poet said:
I copied and pasted this "Explain the methods used to compute the measure of complementary and supplementary angles."
I do not understand what it is asking me to do. Can you explain it?
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Given that you are 12 years old, you are probably in 7th or 8th grade math.

What are "complementary angles"? The definition of complementary angles at the 7th grade level probably says something like this: Two angles are COMPLEMENTARY if their measures add up to 90 degrees.

Now, suppose you are given the measure of an angle and asked to find the measure of its complement. You'd be looking for the measure of ANOTHER angle so that the two angle measures add up to 90 degrees. And generally, that would involve subtracting the measure of the given angle from 90 to find the measure of the complement of the given angle. CAUTION: in geometry as presented at the 7th grade level, angle measures must be greater than 0. So, the only angles which have complements are acute angles, with measures that are less than 90.

Here's an example problem: <A has a measure of 41 degrees. Find the measure of an angle which is complementary to <A. Since you know that an angle and its complement must have measures which add up to 90 degrees, 41 + ?? = 90

Now...you tell US what supplementary angles are, and explain how you would find the supplement of an angle whose measure is given.
 
Radians, no I haven't been studying that. So thank you........ I passed it thanks to yall :) And thats all. BYE-BYE
 
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Two angles are "complimentary" if their measures add to 90 degress. To find the angle complimentary to a given angle, subtract that given angle from 90.

Now, what is the corresponding thing for "supplementary"?
 
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