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What is the value of a?

What is the value of a?-example-1
User Yatrix
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Check the picture below.

notice, on the first 2 lines, we used the quadrilateral conjecture.

on the lines 3 and 4 we used the inscribed angle theorem.

line 5, if we add those 3 arcs, we end up with 427°, mind you that the surplus is arcYW or "b", since it's added twice by XW and YZ.

line 6, if we subtract a full circle from it, we have the surplus.

line 7, we simply subtract YW from XW, leaving the leftover of arc "a".

What is the value of a?-example-1
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