Question

A right triangle has one angle that measures 6 degrees. What is the measure of the other acute angle?

Answer 1

84

Explanation:

All three angles add up to 180 degrees.

Since it is a right triangle, there is a 90 degrees angle. And we know another angle is 6 degree. So we use the formula: 180 - (known angle + known angle) = unknown angle

Plugging in the information we get: 180 - (90 + 6) = x

180 - 96 = 84

So x = 84

We can check our work by adding all known angles to see if it is equal to 180 using the formula known angle + known angle + known angle = 180 degrees

Plugging in the information we get: 90 + 6 + 84 = 180

96 + 84 = 180

180 = 180

So the answer 84 is correct