Question

Help on this question please! also if you can kindly explain it would be very much appreciated!!

Answer 1

The measure of p is 50 degrees.

Explanation

You can see that p is located in a triangle.

The interior angles of a triangle always add up to 180 degrees.

So, to solve this problem, you can find the other interior angles, then subtract those from 180 to find p.

The exterior angles are 140 and 90 degrees. To find the measure of the interior angles, you subtract them from 180, (because the exterior angles and interior angles add up to 180).

The measure of the interior angles are 40 and 90 degrees; 180-140=40 and 180-90=90.

Now you can subtract the measure of the two interior angles from 180 to find p; 180-40-90=50.

Answer 2

D. 50°

Explanation:

We know that there are 3 line segments that are forming the angles. Based on that, we can safely say that each line segment is 180°. Given that, we can find the other 2 interior angles of the triangle. We know that one of the exterior angles is 90° so that interior angle also has to be 90° because both angles have to sum to 180. The 2nd exterior angle that we know is 140, so 180-140 = 40°. Since we know the other 2 angles of the triangle now and we know that all the angles of a triangle must sum to 180°, we add 90 and 40 to get 130 and then subtract that from 180 to get 50°. That would look something like this: 180-(90+40) = 180 - 130 = 50°. Hope this helps!