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8th grade
Course: 8th grade > Unit 5
Lesson 1: Angles between intersecting lines- Angles, parallel lines, & transversals
- Parallel & perpendicular lines
- Missing angles with a transversal
- Angle relationships with parallel lines
- Measures of angles formed by a transversal
- Equation practice with angle addition
- Equation practice with angles
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Measures of angles formed by a transversal
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Sal solves an equation to find missing angles given two parallel lines and a transversal. Created by Sal Khan.
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- I'm a little confused as to how I to set the equation, I set it up as 9x + 88 = 6x + 182 I took the 6x away from the left side and misused the 88 on the right, so I was then left with 3x = 93, I divided each side by three and ended up with 31.333, is there a way to know how to set it up from the beginning in the correct order? Or did i do my math wrong? (Would like to add I set it up the other way as well and figured it out right away) (6x + 182= 9x +88)(23 votes)
- It should be 9x + 88 + 6x + 182 = 180 because those angles are supplementary - they add up to 180 degrees.(11 votes)
- Why was this video really confusing(29 votes)
- maybe because we are learning this early if you did the chapter algebraice expressions it will be easier to understand this(1 vote)
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- But how does 15x + 270 = 180?
It doesn't make sense!(4 votes)- Well, remember that x can be any number - including, vitally, a negative number - and I think it'll begin to resolve itself.
(The answer, if you're interested, is x = -6. 15 * - 6 = -90; 270 - 90 = 180.)(5 votes)
- I feel like the videos don't even help, they only use easy problems on the videos while we have hard problems on the actual thing. Am I the only one? Becuase I need help and this ain't helping.(4 votes)
- Yeah, I get this feeling too sometimes.
It usually helps if I a) watch the video like twice, because when you have a hard time with a more difficult problem, it usually means that the logic behind the formula/whatever hasn't sunk in yet.
b) Try watching the video once, pausing right before the answer shows up, and try to do the problem on your own using the method Sal went through. Since they usually are (as you said) basic problems, they're pretty forgiving.
It can be tricky sometimes, but hang in there! Also, try looking up visual examples/proofs on the internet. They're SUPER helpful. :D(1 vote)
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- I'm a little confused as to how I to set the equation, I set it up as 9x + 88 = 6x + 182 I took the 6x away from the left side and misused the 88 on the right, so I was then left with 3x = 93, I divided each side by three and ended up with 31.333, is there a way to know how to set it up from the beginning in the correct order? Or did i do my math wrong? (Would like to add I set it up the other way as well and figured it out right away) (6x + 182= 9x +88)(4 votes)
- Since they form a straight line (180 degrees) the two would have to add to be 180, so 6x+182+9x+88=180. You can only set them equal when they are congruent angles, but these are complementary(1 vote)
- What if the two angles are corresponding, and don't add up to 180, but instead equal eachother? How would the equation be set up?(3 votes)
- Those angles would not be inside parallel lines then.(3 votes)
Video transcript
So I've got two parallel lines. So that's the first
line right over there and then the second
line right over here. Let me denote that
these are parallel. These are parallel lines. Actually, I can do that
a little bit neater. And let me draw a transversal,
so a line that intersects both of these parallel lines,
so something like that. And now let's say
that we are told that this angle right
over here is 9x plus 88. And this is in degrees. And we're also told that
this angle right over here is 6x plus 182, once
again, in degrees. So my goal here and my question
for you is, can we figure out what these angles
actually are, given that these are parallel lines
and this is a transversal line? And I encourage you
to pause this video to try this on your own. Well, the key here to realize
is that these right over here are related by the
fact that they're formed from a transversal
intersecting parallel lines. And we know, for example,
that this angle corresponds to this angle right over here. They're going to be
congruent angles. And so this is 6x plus 182. This is also going
to be 6x plus 182. And then that helps us
realize that this blue angle and this orange
angle are actually going to be supplementary. They're going to add up to 180
degrees, because put together, when you make them
adjacent, their outer rays form a line right over here. So we know that 6x plus
182 plus 9x plus 88 is going to be equal
to 180 degrees. And now we just have
to simplify this thing. So 6x plus 9x is
going to give us 15x. And then we have 182 plus 88. Let's see, 182 plus 8,
would get us to 190. And then we add another 80. It gets us to 270-- plus
270-- is equal to 180. If we subtract 270
from both sides, we get 15x is equal
to negative 90. And now we can divide
both sides by 15. And we get x is equal
to-- what is this? Let's see, 6 times 15
is 60 plus 30 is 90. So x is going to be
equal to negative 6. So far, we've made
a lot of progress. We figured out what x is equal
to. x is equal to negative 6, but we still haven't figured out
what these angles are equal to. So this angle right
over here, 9x plus 88, this is going to be equal to
9 times negative 6 plus 88. 9 times negative
6 is negative 54. Let me write this down
before I make a mistake. Negative 54 plus
88 is going to be-- let's see, to go from 88 minus
54 will give us 34 degrees. So this is equal to 34,
and it's in degrees. So this orange angle
right here is 34 degrees. The blue angle is going
to be 180 minus that. But we can verify that by
actually evaluating 6x plus 182. So this is going to be
equal to 6 times negative 6 is negative 36 plus 182. So this is going to
be equal to-- let's see, if I subtract the
6 first, I get to 176. So this gets us to 146 degrees. And you can verify-- 146 plus
34 is equal to 180 degrees. Now, we could also figure out
the other angles from this as well. We know that if
this is 34 degrees, then this must be
34 degrees as well. Those are opposite angles. This angle also
corresponds to this angle so it must also be
34 degrees, which is opposite to this angle,
which is going to be 34 degrees. Similarly, if this one right
over here is 146 degrees, we already know that this
one is going to be 146. This one's going to be
146 since it's opposite. And that's going to be
146 degrees as well.