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Is a supplement of a acute angle always obtuse? What if one angle is 30 and the other is 170?

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Yes because if an acute angle is less than 90, then its supplement (the angle that when added to another angle equals to 180°) has to be greater than 90° but less than 180° ( which is basically the definition of an obtuse angle)

A 30° angle is an acute angle and a 170° angle is obtuse but they are not supplementary angles because they do not add up to 180°

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