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10% of x is the complement of 40% of 2x. Find x?

Complimentary Angles - When the sum of the measure of two angles is 90°, such angles are called complimentary angles and each angle is called a compliment of other.




So, According to the question



Multiplying both the sides by 10 we get,





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