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Given two angles that measure 50° and 80° and a side that measures 4 feet, how many triangles, if any, can be constructed?

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Remember that the sum of the three interior angles of a triangle is 180°.

Now, let's call the remaining angle x. We would have:


x+50+80=180

Solving for x,


\begin{gathered} x=180-50-80 \\ \Rightarrow x=50 \end{gathered}

From this, we get that the remaining anlge has to measure 50°. Now, as we already have a side that measures 4 feet, the other two sides are constrained; neither of them can have any measurement that's different to the one that constructs the remaining 50° angle.

Therefore, only one triangle can be constructed.

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