It's helpful to choose letters to represent the measures of these complementary angles. Let x represent one and y the other.
What does "complementary angle" mean? x + y = ??
Let x be the smaller angle. First, we take "half the measure of the larger angle," or (y/2). Then we subtract 6 degrees from this result (y/2). The result is the xmaller angle, x.
Now you have two equations in x and y. Solve for one of these angles, and then find the other. Please show your work.
If this were to be graphed, the independent variable would be the price of the ticket for the rides. The dependent variable would be the total cost.
The fair admission is not a variable because it is a constant price for every single person who goes into the fair.
The problem asks to use y to represent the total cost and x to represent the number of ride tickets. In order to fully write out the equation, we have to figure out what the fair admission costs.
