Two angles are complementary. If one of the angles measures 28^, what is the measure, in degrees, of the other angle?

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Two angles are complementary. If one of the angles measures $28^\circ$ , what is the measure, in degrees, of the other angle?

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Answer: 62

Complementary angles have measures that sum to $90^\circ$ . So the other angle measures $90^\circ - 28^\circ = 62^\circ$ .

Answering $152$ uses $180^\circ$ , which is the sum for supplementary angles, not complementary angles.

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