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Answer:
14.86854, or 15
Step-by-step explanation:
Put all the white balls in one box and the red ball in the other so you have a 50% chance of winning if you put 1 red ball and a white now you have a 25% chance cause you have a 50% chance in choosing the right box then you have to chose the right ball which would be 50%
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
It sounds like everything is being described in reference to angle A, so a good starting point is to pick a variable to represent the measure of angle A. I'm going to use "a" for that.
Next, I'm going to take the verbal descriptions in the problem and "translate" them into "math language". They say angle B is 5 times angle A, so that means the measure of angle B is actually 5a. The size of angle C is 5 degrees less than 4 times the size of A, so that translates to 4a-5.
We now know the following:
Angle A: a
Angle B: 5a
Angle C: 4a-5
Now, to find the value of a, we need to remember that all the angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees.
So we have: a+5a+4a-5 = 180
We can solve that equation by combining like terms to get: 10a-5=180
We can add 5 to both sides: 10a =185
And divide by 10: a = 18.5
That tells us the measure of angle A! (It's 18.5 degrees). Now we can go back and find B by multiplying A by 5. We get 92.5 degrees for that.
Finally, we can find C by taking 4*18.5-5. We get 69 degrees for that.
One last thing-- let's check that they really do add up to 180! 69+92.5+18.5 = 180. Yep!
Hope that helps you!!
