Angles in a Circle 2

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Point D D is located on line segment A E \overline{AE} (if said line segment is drawn). B A E \angle BAE is 90 ° 90° . If A B C = x \angle ABC = x , B C D = x 2 \angle BCD = x^{2} , and C D E = x 3 \angle CDE = x^{3} , what is the measurement of A B C \angle ABC in degrees?

NOTE: The answer must be in the nearest hundredths.


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The answer is 4.76.

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1 solution

Kaizen Cyrus
Jun 27, 2020

Draw line segment A D \overline{AD} and name the resulting intersection point O O . We'll look at the formed triangle O C D \triangle OCD .

A O B \angle AOB is 90 x 90-x and is equal to C O D \angle COD because they are corresponding angles. C D O \angle CDO is 180 x 3 180-x^{3} because it is supplementary with C D E \angle CDE . Now we can add all interior angles of said triangle which forms a cubic equation .

180 x 3 + x 2 + 90 x = 180 x 3 + x 2 x + 90 = 0 x 4.7608 \small \begin{array}{ccc} \begin{aligned} 180-x^{3}+x^{2}+90-x = & \space 180 \\ - x^{3}+x^{2}-x+90 = & \space 0 \end{aligned} & \implies & x \approx 4.7608 \end{array}

Rounded to the nearest hundredths, the answer is 4.76 \boxed{4.76} .

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