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What is x of the rectangle?

What is x of the rectangle?-example-1
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Answer:

x = 8

Explanation:

Since this is a rectangle, we know that each corner's angle is 90 degrees. (The box thing at the bottom right shows this.)

Since the two angles that make up angle E sum up to 90, we can make an equation:

(9x - 6) + (2x + 8) = 90

11x + 2 = 90

11x = 88

x = 8

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