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please help me with my homework Find the values of the variables assuming the figures are parallelograms

please help me with my homework Find the values of the variables assuming the figures-example-1
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Adjacent angles of a parallelogram are supplementary.


3x+10+8x+5=180 \\ \\ 11x+15=180 \\ \\ 11x=165 \\ \\ \boxed{x=15} \\ \\ \\ \\ 5y+3(15)+10=180 \\ \\ 5y+55=180 \\ \\ 5y=125 \\ \\ \boxed{y=21}

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