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What is the measure of angle B in this triangle?

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What is the measure of angle B in this triangle? Enter your answer in the box.-example-1
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Answer:

it is probably 70° of the triangle

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Since a triangle has 180 degrees, you can set up an equation, 180 = 40 + (2x - 30) + (x + 20). You solve for x first, which gets, x = 50. Then since the question is asking for the angle of B, you plug x into (2x - 30) and solve. This gets us 70 degrees for angle B.
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What is the measure of angle B in this triangle? Enter your answer in the box.-example-1
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