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Example Question #11 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
What is the supplementary angle to ?
Supplementary angles add up to . In order to find the correct angle, take the known angle and subtract that from .
Example Question #1 : Solve Simple Equations For An Unknown Angle In A Figure: Ccss.Math.Content.7.G.B.5
What angle is complement to ?
The complement to an angle is ninety degrees subtract the angle since two angles must add up to 90. In this case, since we are given the angle in radians, we are subtracting from instead to find the complement. The conversion between radians and degrees is:
Reconvert the fractions to the least common denominator.
Reduce the fraction.
Example Question #11 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
The above diagram shows a spinner. The radius of the smaller quarter-circles is half that of the larger quarter-circles.
A player spins the above spinner. What is the probability that the spinner will stop while pointing inside a red region?
The size of the regions does not matter here. What matters is the angle measurement, or, equivalently, what part of a circle each sector is.
The two smaller red regions each comprise one fourth of one fourth of a circle, or
circle.
The two larger red regions each comprise one third of one fourth of a circle, or
circle.
Therefore, the total angle measure comprises
of a circle.
This makes the correct probability.
Example Question #13 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
The above diagram shows a spinner. The radius of the smaller quarter-circles is half that of the larger quarter-circles.
A player spins the above spinner. What are the odds against the spinner landing while pointing inside one of the blue regions?
17 to 7
13 to 11
8 to 5
5 to 2
17 to 7
The size of the regions does not matter here. What matters is the angle measurement, or, equivalently, what part of a circle each sector is.
Two of the blue sectors are each one third of one quarter-circle, and thus are
of one circle.
The other two blue sectors are each one fourth of one quarter-circle, and thus are
of one circle.
Therefore, the total angle measure comprises
of a circle. This makes the correct probability. As odds, this translates to
, or odds against the spinner landing in blue.
Example Question #14 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
The above diagram shows a spinner. The radius of the smaller quarter-circles is half that of the larger quarter-circles.
A player spins the above spinner. What are the odds against the spinner landing while pointing inside the purple region?
11 to 1
9 to 1
13 to 1
7 to 1
11 to 1
The size of the regions does not matter here. What matters is the angle measurement, or, equivalently, what part of a circle each sector is.
The purple region is one third of one quarter of a circle, or, equvalently,
of a circle, so its central angle is of the total measures of the angles of the sectors. This makes the probability of the spinner stopping inside the purple region; this translates to
or odds against this occurrence.
Example Question #15 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
In parallelogram , . Give the measure of in terms of .
and are a pair of adjacent angles of the parallelogram, and as such, they are supplementary - that is, their degree measures total 180. Therefore,
Example Question #16 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
The measures of the angles of are as follows:
Is this triangle acute, obtuse, right, or nonexistent?
is a right triangle
cannot exist
is an acute triangle
is an obtuse triangle
is an acute triangle
The sum of the measures of the angles of a triangle is 180 degrees, so solve for in the equation:
All three angles measure less than 90 degrees and are therefore acute angles; that makes an acute triangle.
Example Question #12 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
If you have a right triangle, what is the measure of the two of the angles if they are equal?
The total degrees of the angles in a triangle are .
Since it is a right triangle, one of the three angles must be
That leaves you with for the other two angles .
If they are equal, you just divide the remaining degrees by to get .
Example Question #11 : How To Find The Measure Of An Angle
If you have a right triangle with an angle measuring 45 degrees, what is the third angle measurement?
A right triangle has one 90 degree angle and all three angles must equal 180 degrees.
To find the answer, just subtract the two angles you have from the total to get
The angle we have are,
.
Substituting these into the formula results in the solution.
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