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if two angles are supplementary and congruent then they are right angles

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if two angles are supplementary and congruent then they are right angles

Let the first angle be x. Let the second angle be y.

Supplementary angles means their sum is 180:
x + y = 180

We're given both angles are congruent, meaning equal. So we set x = y:
y + y = 180

To solve for y, we type this equation into our search engine and we get:
y = 90. <-- 90 degrees is a right angle, so this is TRUE
 
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