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What is the value of y? Please help asap

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Adjacent angles of a straight line will always add up to 180
So we can do 180-130=50

So the measure of the angle at the top is 50

We also know that the angles of a triangle always add up to 180, so because we now have all of the measure angles we can solve for y using an equation

The equation is:
y+y+50=180

We'll want to isolate y, so first we should combine like terms, the equation is now
2y+50=180

Next subtract 50 from both sides, the equation is now
2y=130

We'll then divide each side by 2, so we can y by itself

So 2y/2=y
130/2=65

So y=65

We can check this by adding up the inside of the angles of the triangle, they should add up to 180

65+65=130
130+50=180

So this confirms our answer of y=65
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