What is the value of $x$ in a triangle with angles $70, 60$ , and $8x + 2$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2015-12-17T03:14:42

$x=6$

Since any triangle has a sum of interior angles of $180^@$ , we can set up an equation to solve for $x$ :

$70+60+(8x+2)=180$
$60+(8x+2)=110$
$8x+2=50$
$8x=48$
$x=6$

$:.$ , the value of $x$ is $6$ .

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