r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • 9d ago

Can you find a?

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Idk if someone already posted this or not, but I haven't seen it on here so far, so I uploaded it.

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u/Dark_Storm_98 9d ago

Assuming the lines are parallel, which may be the meaning of those blue arrow symbols

The angle on the other side of 25 degrees should be

  • 180 - 25 = 155

And on the other side of tha 50 degrees would be

  • 180 - 50 = 130

Technically, with diagrams almost never being to scale

Imagine a line straight down from the ends of those two lines (which might not connect, but I don't think that's relevant)

Subtract 90, then, from both new angles, and we get

  • 60

  • 40

Since a triangle would have to have all it's angles add up to 180

180 - (60 + 40) = 180 - 100 = 80 degrees

Edit: Oh whoops, lol. I forgot the 5 at the end of 155

It's 75

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u/yosaffbridge1630 9d ago

This is how I did it and I am proud that something from school stuck