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Recall that two angles are complementary if the sum of their measures is​ 90°. find the measures of two complementary angles if one angle is seventeenseventeen times the other angle.

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Let one angle be x
Let another angle be 17x
17x+x = 90
18x = 90
x = 90/18 = 5
one angle = x = 5
another angle = 17x =17*5 = 85
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