Question

Two angles are supplementary. one angle is 4 degrees° less than three times the other. find the measures of the angles.

Answer 1

We call these angles a and b.
and we have the sum a+b=180.
in addition 3b-4=a
So we have 3b-4+b=180
or 4b=184 and at the end we have b=46, a= 134