Asked by Lisa

The three angles of a triangle have measures 8x+6, 7x-8, 5x+2. What is the measure of the smallest angle?
Answered by Steve
they add up to 180, so
8x+6 + 7x-8 + 5x+2 = 180
solve for x, then decide which is the smallest angle.
I suspect it is 5x+2