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How Do You Find a Missing Angle in a Triangle?
Find the value of x in the figure below
Summary
- We can add our three angles together and set them equal to 180
° to find x

Notes
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The Triangle Sum Theorem says that the three angles of a triangle will always add up to 180
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So we can add our three angles together and set them equal to 180
° to solve for x
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The Triangle Sum Theorem says that the three angles of a triangle will always add up to 180
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Angle SFN measures 81.3
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Angle FSN measures 54.9
° - Angle FNS, our missing angle, is x
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Angle SFN measures 81.3
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- We can plug the values we know into our equation to solve for x
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- Simplify by adding the decimals on the left hand side
- Then subtract 136.2 from both sides to get x by itself