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Find angle RUS. Please explain answer so that I may reiterate it on my upcoming test. Thank you.

Find angle RUS. Please explain answer so that I may reiterate it on my upcoming test-example-1

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The value of angle RUS is equal to 116 degrees.

The rectangle in the image is a rhombus. Thus, all angles in the rectangle are equal to 90 degrees and adjacent sides are equal. Thus, we have mRUS = 90 - 64 = 26 degrees.

In the given rectangle QRST, we are given that angle QRS is 64 degrees.

We need to find the measure of angle RUS.

Since QRST is a rectangle, we know that angles QRS and RUS are supplementary angles, which means that they add up to 180 degrees.

Therefore, we can write the following equation:

x + 64 = 180

Subtracting 64 from both sides of the equation, we get:

x = 180 - 64

x = 116 degrees

Therefore, the measure of angle RUS is 116 degrees.

Another way to solve this problem is to use the fact that opposite angles in a rectangle are equal.

We know that angle QRS and angle TSU are opposite angles, so they must be equal.

Therefore, we can write the following equation:

64 degrees = x degrees

Solving for x, we get:

x = 64 degrees

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