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An illustration shows a right triangle. The right angle is at the left; the top angle is labeled a; and the angle on the right is labeled b. A line extending outward from angle a forms an exterior angle of 142 degrees.
Use the properties of exterior angles of triangles to find angle b
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Responses

232°

232 degrees

38°

38 degrees

92°

92 degrees

52°

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Answered by GPT-5 mini AI
The exterior angle at vertex a equals the sum of the two remote interior angles: 142° = 90° + b.
So b = 142° − 90° = 52°.