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How Do You Find a Missing Angle in a Triangle?

Find the value of x in the figure below

Summary

  1. We can add our three angles together and set them equal to 180° to find x

Notes

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