Question

In a right triangle, one acute angle measures 50°. What is the measure of the other acute angle?

Answer 1

Answer:

40°

Step-by-step explanation:

The triangle is a right triangle, so one measure of one of the angles is 90 degrees.

One acute angle measures 50 degrees.

Angles in a triangle add up to 180 degrees.

180 - 90 - 50

⇒ 40

The measure of the other acute angle is 40 degrees.

Acute angles measure less than 90 degrees. 40 degrees is less than 90 degrees, so it is an acute angle.

Answer 2

Answer:

In a right angle triangle, one of the angles is 90°. It is given that one of the acute angled of the right angled triangle is 50°. We know that the sum of the measures of all the angles of a triangle is 180°. Now, let the third angle be x.