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I've redrawn and labeled the given image. Angles
x' are supplementary to angles
x; that is, for any angle
x,


x+x'=180^\circ

It's also useful to know that for any convex
n-gon, the sum of its interior angles is


(n-2)*180^\circ

Notice that the angle supplementary to the one labeled
b is congruent to the angle supplementary to the one labeled
c; this means that
b=c.

So we have


\begin{cases}b=c\\a'+e+40^\circ+90^\circ=360^\circ\\a+b'+e'=180^\circ\\a'+b+\angle(1)+d+88^\circ=540^\circ\\b'+f'+\angle(1)'=180^\circ\\e+b+f+c+g=540^\circ\\c'+f'+h'=180^\circ\\\angle(1)+f+h+76^\circ+90^\circ=540^\circ\\g'+c'+\angle(2)'=180^\circ\\a+\angle(2)+c+h+58^\circ=540^\circ\end{cases}

Solving the system will give you


a=61^\circ,b=130^\circ,c=130^\circ,d=59^\circ,e=111^\circ,f=86^\circ,g=83^\circ,h=144^\circ

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