Question

The measure of an angle is 83°. What is the measure of its complementary angle?

Answer 1

7 degrees because complementary angles are 90 degrees and when u subtract 90-83= 7.

Answer 2

Hello! Your answer is 7 degrees.

A set of complementary angles are ones which, when their measurements are added, will equal up to 90 degrees. For example, the complementary angle of a 80 degree angle would be 10 degrees. A supplementary angle also falls in the same category, however it is adding up to 180 degrees. The way I remember which one is which is that c comes first in the alphabet, and 90 degrees comes before 180 degrees.

Applying that knowledge, 83 plus the complementary angle must equal 90. 83 + 7 = 90, therefore, the complementary angle measures 7 degrees.

Hope this helps!