Question

The figure is not drawn to scale.What is the value of x, in degrees?Respond in the space provided.x =

Answer 1

The first step to do is to draw this picture on your notebook and *extend the ray* on the left. After doing that, you will be able to see the angle between the new ray and the almost horizontal right line is 27° (vertically opposite angles). Because of the right angle in the picture, we have (vertically opposite angles again)

`90\text{ = 27 + x}`

This leads us to conclude x = 63°.