A building floor plan is shaped like a trapezoid, with two right angle corners. If the third corner is a 40° angle, what is the measure of the fourth angle?

Respuesta :

Recall that the interior angles of a regular quadrilateral add up to 360 degrees, and a right angle has a measure of 90 degrees.

Let x° be the measure of the fourth angle, then we can set the following equation:

[tex]40^{\circ}+90^{\circ}+90^{\circ}+x^{\circ}=360^{\circ}.[/tex]

Adding like terms we get:

[tex]220^{\circ}+x^{\circ}=360^{\circ}.[/tex]

Subtracting 220 degrees from the above result we get:

[tex]\begin{gathered} 220^{\circ}+x^{\circ}-220^{\circ}=360^{\circ}-220^{\circ}, \\ x^\circ=140^\circ. \end{gathered}[/tex]

Answer:

[tex]140^{\circ}.[/tex]