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What is the value of x?

What is the value of x?-example-1
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Answer:

x = 1°

Explanation:

You want to know the value of x given that (-x+46°) is the base angle of an isosceles triangle inscribed in a semicircle.

Right triangle

A triangle inscribed in a semicircle is a right triangle. (Arc IJ is 180°, and inscribed angle K is half that measure.) An isosceles right triangle has base angles that are each 45°:

-x +46° = 45°

1° = x . . . . . . . . . add x-45° to both sides

The value of x is 1°.

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