How do i find the missing angle of a triangle

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Find angle C.

How do i find the missing angle of a triangle

Possible Answers:

C=72

C=65

None of these

C=53

C=70

Explanation:

First, know that all the angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees.

Each triangle has 3 angles.  Thus, we have the sum of three angles as shown:

 

where we have angles A, B, and C. In our right triangle, one angle is 25 degree and we'll call that angle A. The other known angle is 90 degrees and we'll call this angle B.  Thus, we have

Simplify and solve for C.

Which of the following can be two angle measures of a right triangle?

Correct answer:

Explanation:

A right triangle cannot have an obtuse angle; this eliminates the choice of 100 and 10.

The acute angles of a right triangle must total 90 degrees. Three choices can be eliminated by this criterion:

The remaining choice is correct:

A right triangle has an angle that is 15 more than twice the other.  What is the smaller angle?

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The sum of the angles in a triangle is 180.  A right triangle has one angle of 90.  Thus, the sum of the other two angles will be 90.

Let =  first angle and = second angle

So the equation to solve becomes or

Thus, the first angle is and the second angle is .

So the smaller angle is

Angle  in the triangle shown below (not to scale) is 35 degrees. What is angle ?

How do i find the missing angle of a triangle

Possible Answers:

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Correct answer:

 degrees

Explanation:

The interior angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees. We are given angle  and since this is indicated to be a right triangle we know angle  is equal to 90 degrees. Thus we know 2 of the 3 and can determine the third angle.

Angle  is equal to 55 degrees.

Which of the following cannot be true of a right triangle?

Possible Answers:

One leg can be longer than the hypotenuse.

A right triangle can have an obtuse angle.

A right triangle can be equilateral.

None of the other statements can be true of a right triangle.

The measures of the angles of a right triangle can total .

Correct answer:

None of the other statements can be true of a right triangle.

Explanation:

All of these statements are false.

A right triangle can be equilateral.

False: An equilateral triangle must have three angles that measure  each.

One leg can be longer than the hypotenuse.

False: Each leg is shorter than the hypotenuse.

A right triangle can have an obtuse angle.

False: Both angles of a right triangle that are not right must be acute.

The measures of the angles of a right triangle can total .

False: The measures of any triangle total .

In triangle , what is the measure of angle ?

How do i find the missing angle of a triangle

Correct answer:

How do i find the missing angle of a triangle

Find the degree measure of the missing angle.

Correct answer:

Explanation:

All the angles in a triangle add up to 180º.

To find the value of the remaining angle, subtract the known angles from 180º:

 

Therefore, the third angle measures 43º.

The right triangle  has two equal angles, what is each of their measures?

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The internal angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees, and it was given that the triangle was right, meaning that one of the angles measures 90 degrees.

This leaves 90 degrees to split evenly between the two remaining angles as was shown in the question.

Therefore, each of the two equal angles has a measure of 45 degrees.

What is the missing angle in this right triangle?

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The angles of a triangle all add up to .

This means that .

Using the fact that 90 is half of 180, we can figure out that the missing angle, x, plus 34 adds to the remaining 90, and we can just subtract

.

Solve for :

Correct answer:

Explanation:

The angles of a triangle add together to 180 degrees. We already know that one of the angles is 90 degrees, so we can subtract 90 from 180: the other 2 angles have to add to 90 degrees.

We can now subtract to get x:

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How do you find a missing angle of a triangle with 3 sides?

"SSS" is when we know three sides of the triangle, and want to find the missing angles..
use The Law of Cosines first to calculate one of the angles..
then use The Law of Cosines again to find another angle..
and finally use angles of a triangle add to 180° to find the last angle..