16) One exterior angle of an isosceles triangle is 70°. a) Find the possible measures of the other two exter angles. b) How many answers can you find? Explain.​

The other exterior angles must be 145 degrees. There is only one answer because there cannot be 2 of 110 degree angles in a triangle, so the other two exterior angles must correspond to the 2 equal angles in the triangle.

Step-by-step explanation:

For an exterior angle, we know that an exterior angle added with its corresponding interior angle is equal to 180 degrees. Thus, 180 = 70 + i, or the interior angle. i is then 110 degrees.

An isosceles triangle has two equal angles. As a triangle can only be 180 degrees. we cannot have 2 of i, as doing so would be equal to 220 degrees. Therefore, for the other two interior angles, they must be equal. Representing o, their angles could be put into an equation of 110 + 2o = 180, so o = 35.

For the other exterior angles, their corresponding interior angles are equal to 35 each, so they must be 145 degrees. There is only one answer because there cannot be 2 of 110 degree angles in a triangle, so the other two exterior angles must correspond to the 2 equal angles in the triangle.

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