Complementary Angles

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Lesson Objective

In this lesson, we will learn about complementary angles.

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About This Lesson

In this lesson, we will learn:

  1. What are complementary angles
  2. See some examples on identifying them

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Tip #1

When we add two angles and get 90°, we can say that these angles are complementary angles. See an example below:

examples of complementary angles

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In this lesson, we will learn about comp. angles.

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Let's take a look at these two angles.

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Notice that, when we add these two angles, we get 90 degrees.

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Seeing this, we can say that these two angles are comp. angles.

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Now, when we rotate this arm, these two angles must add to 90 degrees, to remain as comp. angles.

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Adding 15 degrees with 75 degrees, gives 90 degrees.

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Adding 67 degrees with 23 degrees, gives 90 degrees.

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Now, let's see some examples.

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Are these comp. angles?

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To find out, we just need to add 12 degrees with 78 degrees. This gives 90 degrees.

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Hence, these are angles that are complementary.

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Next example, these two angles are comp. angles. Find x.

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We know that, when we add these 2 angles, we must get 90 degrees.

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Hence, we can find 'x', by subtracting 90 degrees, with 73 degrees.

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Therefore, ‘x’ will be equals to 17 degrees.

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That is all for this lesson.

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