How to find an angle in an acute / obtuse isosceles triangle

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An isoceles triangle has a base angle that is twice the vertex angle. What is the sum of the base and vertex angles?

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All triangles have degrees. An isoceles triangle has one vertex angle and two congruent base angles.

Let vertex angle and base angle.

So the equation to solve becomes:

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Thus for the vertex angle and for the base angle.

The sum of the vertex and one base angle is .

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An isoceles triangle has a base angle that is degrees less than three times the vertex angle. What is the product of the vertex angle and the base angle?

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Every triangle has 180 degrees. An isoceles triangle has one vertex angle and two congruent base angles.

Let vertex angle and base angle.

Then the equation to solve becomes:

, or .

Then the vertex angle is , the base angle is , and the product is .

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The base angle of an isosceles triangle is thirteen more than three times the vertex angle. What is the difference between the vertex angle and the base angle?

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Every triangle has . An isosceles triangle has one vertex ange, and two congruent base angles.

Let be the vertex angle and be the base angle.

The equation to solve becomes , since the base angle occurs twice.

Now we can solve for the vertex angle.

The difference between the vertex angle and the base angle is .

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An isoceles triangle has a vertex angle that is degrees more than twice the base angle. What is the vertex angle?

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Every triangle has degrees. An isoceles triangle has one vertex angle and two congruent base angles.

Let base angle and vertex angle.

So the equation to solve becomes .

Thus the base angles are and the vertex angle is .

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If an isosceles triangle has an angle measuring greater than 100 degrees, and another angle with a measuring degrees, which of the following is true?

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Explanation

In order for a triangle to be an isosceles triangle, it must contain two equivalent angles and one angle that is different. Given that one angle is greater than 100 degrees: Thus, the sum of the other two angles must be less than 80 degrees. If an angle is represented by :

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Triangle FGH has equal lengths for FG and GH; what is the measure of ∠F, if ∠G measures 40 degrees?

140 degrees

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70 degrees

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40 degrees

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100 degrees

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None of the other answers

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It's good to draw a diagram for this; we know that it's an isosceles triangle; remember that the angles of a triangle total 180 degrees.

Angle G for this triangle is the one angle that doesn't correspond to an equal side of the isosceles triangle (opposite side to the angle), so that means ∠F = ∠H, and that ∠F + ∠H + 40 = 180,

By substitution we find that ∠F * 2 = 140 and angle F = 70 degrees.

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An isosceles triangle has a vertex angle that is twenty degrees more than twice the base angle. What is the sum of the vertex and base angles?

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40

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All triangles contain degrees. An isosceles triangle has one vertex angle and two congruent base angles.

Let and .

So the equation to solve becomes .

We get and , so the sum of the base and vertex angles is .

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An isosceles triangle has a base angle that is six more than three times the vertex angle. What is the base angle?

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Every triangle has 180 degrees. An isosceles triangle has one vertex angle and two congruent base angles.

Let = vertex angle and = base angle.

Then the equation to solve becomes

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Solving for gives a vertex angle of 24 degrees and a base angle of 78 degrees.

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In triangle ABC, Angle A = x degrees, Angle B = 2x degrees, and Angle C = 3x+30 degrees. How many degrees is Angle B?

105°

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30°

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50°

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25°

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45°

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Because the interior angles of a triangle add up to 180°, we can create an equation using the variables given in the problem: x+2x+(3x+30)=180. This simplifies to 6X+30=180. When we subtract 30 from both sides, we get 6x=150. Then, when we divide both sides by 6, we get x=25. Because Angle B=2x degrees, we multiply 25 times 2. Thus, Angle B is equal to 50°. If you got an answer of 25, you may have forgotten to multiply by 2. If you got 105, you may have found Angle C instead of Angle B.

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Points A and B lie on a circle centered at Z, where central angle <AZB measures 140°. What is the measure of angle <ZAB?

15°

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20°

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25°

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30°

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Cannot be determined from the given information

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Because line segments ZA and ZB are radii of the circle, they must have the same length. That makes triangle ABZ an isosceles triangle, with <ZAB and <ZBA having the same measure. Because the three angles of a triangle must sum to 180°, you can express this in the equation:

140 + 2x = 180 --> 2x = 40 --> x = 20