How to find the angle for a percentage of a circle - Math

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Find the degree measure of .

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When two chords of a circle intersect, the measure of the angle they form is half the sum of the measures of the arcs they intercept. Therefore,

Since and form a linear pair, , and .

Substitute and into the first equation:

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