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Example Questions

Example Question #2 : Angles

Pentagon

Note: Figure NOT drawn to scale.

Refer to the above figure.   is equilateral and Pentagon  is regular.

Evaluate .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

First, we find .

By angle addition, 

.

 is an angle of a regular pentagon and has measure .

, as an angle of an equilateral triangle, has measure 

 is equilateral, so ; Pentagon  is regular, so . Therefore, , and by the Isosceles Triangle Theorem, .

The degree measures of three angles of a triangle total , so:

Example Question #423 : 2 Dimensional Geometry

Pentagon_1

Refer to the above figure, which shows Square   and regular Pentagon .

Evaluate .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

By angle addition,

.

 is an angle of a regular pentagon and has measure .

 is one of two acute angles of isosceles right triangle , so .

Example Question #32 : Other Shapes

 

 Thingy_2

Refer to the above figure.   is equilateral, and Quadrilateral  is a square.

Evaluate

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

By angle addition,

.

, as an angle of an equilateral triangle, has measure 

, as an angle of a square, has measure .

Therefore,

 .

Example Question #1391 : Ged Math

Give the number of sides of a regular polygon whose interior angles have measure .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The easiest way to solve this is to look at the exterior angles, each of which have measure . Since each exterior angle of a regular polygon with  sides is , we solve for  in the following equation:

The polygon has 36 sides.

Example Question #3 : Angles

Three consecutive even angles add up to .  What must be the value of the second largest angle?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Let  be an even angle.  The next consecutive even values are .

Set up an equation such that all angles added equal to 180.

Divide by three on both sides.

The second largest angle is .

Substitute the value of  in to the expression.

The answer is: 

Example Question #1391 : Ged Math

Thingy

Refer to the above figure. You are given that .

Which two angles must be complementary?

Possible Answers:

 and 

 and 

 and 

 and 

Correct answer:

 and 

Explanation:

 and  form a linear pair, so their measures add up to that of a straight angle, which is . They must be supplementary (and cannot be complementary).

 and  are a pair of vertical angles - angles formed from a pair of intersecting lines which together have the lines as the union. They must be congruent, and need not be complementary.

 and  are a pair of same-side interior angles formed by transversal  across the parallel lines. They must be supplementary (and cannot be complementary).

 and  are the acute angles of right triangle . They must be complementary. This is the correct pair.

Example Question #1392 : Ged Math

Angles A and B are complementary angles. The measure of angle A is , The measure of Angle B is . find the value of .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Since angles A and B are complementary, their measures add up to 90 degrees. Therefore we can set up our equation as such:

-or-

 

Combine like terms and solve for :

Example Question #1393 : Ged Math

What is the measure of an angle that is complementary to an angle measuring ?

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The sum of complementary angles is equal to

Set up the following equation and solve for :

Example Question #4 : Complementary Angles

Angles A and B are complementary angles. The measure of angle A is . The measure of angle B is . Solve for .

Possible Answers:

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Since angles A and B are complementary angles, their measurements add up to equal 90. Therefore, we need to set up our equation as follows:

-or-

 

Combine like terms:

And solve for :

Example Question #434 : 2 Dimensional Geometry

Angles A and B are complementary angles. The measure of angle A is . The measure of angle B is . What are the measures of the two angles?

Possible Answers:

No solution

Correct answer:

Explanation:

Since angles A and B are complementary, their measures add up to equal 90 degrees. Therefore we can set up an equation as follows:

-or-

 

Combine like terms and solve for :

 

Now that we have found , we need to plug that back in to the two angle measurements

 

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