The figure below shows a walkway with a handrail. Angle is the angle between the walkway and the horizontal, while angle is the
angle between the vertical posts of the handrail and the walkway. Use the figure below to work the problem. (Assume that the vertical posts are perpendicular to the horizontal.) Are angles and complementary or supplementary angles?
complementary
supplementary
The angles as shown are supplementary angles because the add up to 180 degrees.
<h3>What are supplementary angles?</h3>
Two angles are said to be supplementary if they add up to 180 degrees. Now we know that the sum of angles on straight line is 180 degrees. If we look at the image as shown in the image attached, we can see that the angles lie on a straight line.
As such, we can conclude that the angles as shown are supplementary angles because the add up to 180 degrees.