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What is the difference between complementary and supplementary angles

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Supplementary angles are two angles whose sum is 180 degrees while complementary angles are two angles whose sum is 90 degrees. Supplementary and complementary angles do not have to be adjacent (sharing a vertex and side, or next to), but they can be. ... The difference is their sum.
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Complementary angles are two angles whose sum is 90 degrees.

Supplementary angles are two angles whose sum is 180 degrees.

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