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60"FMostly cloudyQuestion4The measure of one angle of a right triangle is 56° more than the measure of the smallest angle. Find the measure of thesmallest angle.Sorry, that's incorrect. Try again?FEEDBACKVIEW ANSWERSUBMITContent attribution11ASUS

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Answer:

The measure of the smallest angle is 17º

Step-by-step explanation:

The 3 angles of a right triangle add up to 180. If we call A the bigger angle, and B the smallest:


180º=90º+A+B

Which means:


A+B=90º

We also know that the smallest triangle plus 56º is the bigger triangle. This is:


A=B+56º

Now we have the equation system:


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