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Given: two angles are supplementary Conjecture:they are both acute angles

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Supplementary angles: Two angles are supplementary when they add up to 180º.

Acute angles: They are less than 90º.

So, for two angles to add up to 180º, we need two right angles(90º), or one obtuse(>90º) and one acute(<90º). So this conjecture is incorrect.

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