A room has five corners, one of the five has an angle is 179 degrees what would be the measure meant of the other angle if the sum of two of the unknown angles is 60 and the sum of the other two is 3 less than the sum of the first two.
my first question is, IS THIS EVEN POSSIBLE
and my second question is if yes, then what are the measurements
"Random" is a strange name for a geometry question. Is that what they call it in your school?
no its called geometry, but I feel that it's just another one of my teacher's random questions
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well it is random, it's an optional question from my homework and was just wondering if any one is interested in solving it
Then put "geometry" in your school subject line and a geometry tutor may well help you! I clicked on it out of mere curiosity. I'm no geometry tutor. I have not studied geometry since I was your age, and I've forgotten most of it.
Yes, it is possible to solve for the measurements of the other angles.
To approach this problem, let's assign variables to the unknown angles. Let's call the angles x, y, z, w, and 179 degrees. Since the sum of all angles in a room is 540 degrees (if we assume it's a flat room), we can set up the following equation:
x + y + z + w + 179 = 540
Now, we are given two conditions about the angles. The first condition states that the sum of two unknown angles is 60, which can be expressed as:
x + y = 60
The second condition states that the sum of the other two angles is 3 less than the sum of the first two, which can be expressed as:
z + w = (x + y) - 3
Now, we can solve the system of equations to find the measurements of the angles.
Let's substitute the value of x + y in terms of x and y into the equation z + w = (x + y) - 3:
z + w = 60 - 3
z + w = 57
We can label this equation as equation (1).
Now, let's substitute the two unknowns in terms of z and w in the equation x + y + z + w + 179 = 540:
x + y + z + w + 179 = 540
(z + w) + z + w + 179 = 540
Let's simplify this equation:
2(z + w) = 540 - 179
2(z + w) = 361
Divide both sides of this equation by 2:
z + w = 180.5
We can label this equation as equation (2).
We now have a system of two equations:
Equation (1): z + w = 57
Equation (2): z + w = 180.5
Since Equation (1) states that z + w = 57 and Equation (2) states that z + w = 180.5, we can conclude that these two equations contradict each other. Therefore, it is not possible to find a solution to this problem with the given conditions.
In summary, it is not possible to determine the measurements of the other angles in the given scenario.