Complementary and Supplementary Angles
1. Find an angle if it is 26° less than its complement.
2. Two supplementary angles are in the ratio 7:8. Calculate the measure of both.
3. If (2x + 5) and (3x - 10) are complementary, solve for x.
4. The supplement of an angle is four times the angle itself. Find the angle.
5. If the supplement of an angle is three times its complement, find the angle.
6. Find the measure of an angle whose complement is one-fourth of its supplement.
7. Two angles forming a linear pair are (3x + 20) and (2x + 10). Find the value of each
angle.
8. If an angle is 15° more than half of its supplement, what is its measure?
9. Angle P and Angle Q are supplementary. If Angle P is 5x and Angle Q is 4x + 18, find x.
10. Find the angle which is 40° less than its supplement.
11. If the difference between two complementary angles is 34°, find both angles.
12. Three angles meet at a point on a straight line. If they are x, 2x, and 3x, find the value of
each.
13. If an angle is 2/3 of its own complement, calculate its measure.
14. Find the value of y if (5y + 6) and (2y + 14) are supplementary.
15. If two-fifths of an angle is 36°, find the supplement of that angle.
Parallel Lines and Transversals
16. Two parallel lines are cut by a transversal. If one interior angle is (4x - 10) and its
alternate interior angle is (2x + 30), find x.
17. If a pair of consecutive interior angles are in the ratio 4:5, find the measure of the smaller
angle.
18. A transversal intersects two parallel lines. If one angle is 75°, find the measure of its
alternate exterior angle.
19. If (3x + 15) and (2x + 25) are corresponding angles on parallel lines, solve for x.
20. In a pair of parallel lines, the sum of two alternate interior angles is 140°. Find each
angle.
21. If the interior angles on the same side of a transversal are (3x + 5) and (4x - 7), find the
measure of both angles.
22. If a transversal cuts two parallel lines such that one exterior angle is 110°, find the
measure of the interior angle on the same side as that exterior angle.
23. Two parallel lines are intersected by a transversal. If the alternate exterior angles are (5x
- 20) and (3x + 40), find x.
24. If two interior angles on the same side of a transversal are equal, prove that the
transversal is perpendicular to the parallel lines.
25. In the "Z" shape formed by parallel lines, if the angle at the top is (x + 15) and the bottom
is (2x - 10), find x.
26. If the corresponding angles are (7x) and (3x + 80), find the measure of the angles.
27. If the sum of a pair of alternate interior angles and their vertically opposite angles is
240°, find the measure of one of the original angles.
28. Find x if two parallel lines are cut by a transversal and the consecutive interior angles
are (x + 20) and (2x + 10).
29. If one angle of a transversal-parallel line intersection is 45°, what is the sum of its
corresponding angle and its alternate interior angle?
30. If a transversal intersects two lines such that the sum of interior angles on the same side
is 179°, are the lines parallel? Why?
Exterior Angle Property of Triangles
31. The exterior angle of a triangle is 130°. If the two interior opposite angles are in the ratio
2:3, find their measures.
32. In a triangle, an exterior angle is 115°. If one interior opposite angle is 35° more than the
other, find both.
33. An exterior angle of a triangle is (5x + 10). If the interior opposite angles are 60° and
70°, find the value of x.
34. If all three exterior angles of a triangle are equal, what type of triangle is it, and what is
the measure of each interior angle?
35. The interior opposite angles are (x + 10) and (2x - 5). If the exterior angle is 110°, find x.
36. If the exterior angle is 140° and its adjacent interior angle is 2x, find the value of x.
37. Can a triangle have two obtuse exterior angles? Justify your answer.
38. In triangle PQR, side QR is produced to S. If angle PRS = 105° and angle P = 2 * angle
Q, find the measures of P and Q.
39. If the sum of two exterior angles of a triangle is 240°, find the third exterior angle.
40. An exterior angle is 120°. If the difference between the two interior opposite angles is
20°, find the angles.
Triangle Inequality Property
41. A triangle has sides 8 cm and 15 cm. What is the range of possible lengths for the third
side?
42. If the sides of a triangle are x, x+3, and x+6, and x = 4, can these sides form a triangle?
43. Two sides of an isosceles triangle are 4 cm and 9 cm. What must be the length of the
third side? (Hint: check both possibilities).
44. If the perimeter of a triangle is 18 cm, can one of its sides be 10 cm? Explain.
45. In triangle ABC, AB + BC = 12 cm, BC + CA = 15 cm, and CA + AB = 13 cm. Find the
length of each side and verify the inequality property.
46. If sides are (x - 1), x, and (x + 1), what is the smallest whole number value x can take to
form a triangle?
47. Is it possible to have a triangle with sides 2.5 cm, 3.5 cm, and 6.0 cm?
48. A triangle has sides of length 7 cm and 24 cm. If the third side is an integer "k", what is
the smallest possible value for k?
49. If a triangle has sides a, b, and c, and a = 12, b = 5, what is the largest possible integer
value for c?
50. Prove that the sum of the three sides of a triangle is always greater than the sum of its
three medians. (Conceptual challenge).