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Find the measures of the complementary angles that satisfy each case:
The measure of the first angle is 40 degrees less than the measure of the second

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Answer:

  25°, 65°

Step-by-step explanation:

Essentially, you want two angles that have a sum of 90 degrees and a difference of 40 degrees.

The smaller is half the sum less half the difference: 90/2 -40/2 = 45 -20 = 25.

The larger is half the sum plus half the difference: 90/2 +40/2 = 45 +20 = 65.

Of course, once you know either value, you can add or subtract the difference (as needed) to find the other value.

The two angles are 25° and 65°.

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Additional comment

There are many ways you can arrive at this conclusion. Algebraically,  we can write ...

  a+b = sum

  a-b = difference

Adding these two equations gives ...

  2a = sum +difference

Multiplying by 1/2, we get ...

  a = 1/2sum +1/2difference . . . . . . as described above

Subtracting the difference gives ...

  b = a -difference = 1/2sum -1/2difference