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If the measure of an angle is twenty less than the measure of its complement, what is the measure of the angle?

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That angle would be 35 degrees.

Complementary angles equal 90 degrees. So you can create an equation with x as the angle and its complement being x + 20. Set that equal to 90 and solve.
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