You know that all the angle measures of a triangle add to 180. So the equation would be angle a + angle b + 70 = 180. Subsitute and simplify and you get 16x -2 + 70 = 180. Subtract 70 from 180 to get 16x -2=110 add 2 to get 16x =110. Divide each side by 16 to gte x=7. Subsitute x = 7 into the equations for angle a and angle b to get the answers above
