Since these are all exterior angles, they will all always add up to 360°. Since we know this, you can set up an equation and it would be x+(x+6)+114=360. When added you get 2x+120=360. Now subtract 120 on each side to get 2x equals 240. Then you divide by 2 and get that x is 120. Now all you have to do is plug x into the equations for the angles so they would be 120, 114, and 120+6 so 126. Now you have 120,114,and 126 as your angles. To check, just add all the angle measurements up and it should equal 360.
You can formulate your own equations by analyzing the given problem and its statements. You can do some illustrations so you can understand it better. Introduce some variables and the rest is algebra. For example:
An orange costs $2 while a banana costs $1.5. How many oranges and bananas do you have to buy such that the total cost would equal to $20. You bought a total of 12 fruits.
First, you have to introduce variables. Let 'x' be the number of oranges and 'y' be the number of bananas. One equation you can get from here is knowing the amount of total cost: 2x + 1.5y = 20. Then, the other equation would be knowing the amount of fruits: x+y=12. You have two unknowns and two equations. Hence, you can solve the problem. Solving them simultaneously, you would get that x=4 and y=8.
We can say that because 3 times 9, which would equal 27, could be the same as 4*9, which would be 36. So Pat needs 36 pints of green paint. Down below is a tape diagram so you can see what it is.