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The sum of complementary angles is 90°.

The sum of supplementary angles is 180°.

EXAMPLE : 27° is the complementary angle to 63° and the supplementary angle to 153°.

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What is the relationship between complementary and supplementary angles?

For any given angle, its supplementary angle is 90 degrees larger than its complementary angle.


How do you remember the difference between complementary and supplementary angles?

Complementary angles are 90 degree angles while supplementary angels are 180 degree angles.You remember it by how complementary angle are 90 degrees more to get a supplementary angles.


What is the complement of a 25 degree angle?

Complementary angles add up to a right angle (90°). So 90° - 25° = 65° The way I remember the difference between complementary and supplementary is: think of a Straight line is 180° (Supplementary). Think of a Cross makes a 90° angle (Complementary)


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Complementary angle is 71 degrees and supplementary angle is 161 degrees


Is 73 complementary or supplementary?

It is complementary to one angle, supplementary to another.


Can a supplementary angle be a complementary angle?

A supplementary angle can not be a complementary angle. The complementary angle has 2 angles equal 90... but a supplementary angle is X2 that much (108). * * * * * Nearly correct. 90 x 2 is 180, not 108!


How do you find complementary and supplementary angles?

Complementary angles are found by subtracting a random angle from 90 degrees for complementary always and 180 for supplementary always


What is the supplementary and complementary angle of 73?

supplementary: 107 degrees complementary: 17 degrees


An interior angle of a polygon and its adjacent exterior angle are complementary?

No, they are supplementary, not complementary.


Angle formed by supplementary and complementary angles?

Supplementary angles forms a 180o angle (or a straight line). Complementary angles form a 90o angle.


Is 40° complementary or supplementary?

It is 120-degree angle are supplementary.


What are the methods used to compute the measures of complementary and supplementary angles?

The methods are subtraction. -- Subtract an angle from 90° to find its complementary angle. -- Subtract an angle from 180° to find its supplementary angle.