Question

PLEASE HELP SO CONFUSED!
Angle TUW measure (10x – 7)° and angle VUW measures (5x + 13)°. Find the measure of angle TUV ( picture attached in the comments)

Answer 1

Know your rules for kites?

Answer 2

not very well

Answer 3

I think the whole kite add up to 360 degrees but that's all I really know

Answer 4

http://www.coolmath.com/reference/kites.html

Answer 5

but how does that help find TUV?

Answer 6

Look for bisectors. This might help a little too.
http://www.lavcmath.com/shin/quadrilaterals.pdf

Answer 7

I understand the properties I need help putting all the information together I font get how it all goes together and what formulas to use

Answer 8

Know what it is to bisect an angle?

Answer 9

its the line down the middle cutting it in half

Answer 10

Yes. So... what angles are being bisected on that kite?

Answer 11

tuv and twv

Answer 12

And you are looking for TUV. So, what is TUV bisected into?

Answer 13

tuv is bisected into tu and uv

Answer 14

Those are segments. Not angles.

Answer 15

So to be more clear: When you bisect TUV, what angles do you get?

Answer 16

I have no idea

Answer 17

Well, what line bisects them? The common point on that line is the hinge or middle point of the angle.

Answer 18

Well that chopped off in the wrong place....

abc is biceted by db. That makes the new angles in that example as cbd and dba.

Answer 19

so the new angles in my problem are WTU and WVU?

Answer 20

t is not in the hinge point.

Answer 21

Take another look at the question and what you have been given and asked. The relationship between what was given and asked should be more clear now.

Answer 22

do you set (10x-7)=(5x+13) and then solve?

Answer 23

Yah.

Answer 24

can you help guide me with this problem as well? http://openstudy.com/study#/updates/51e85679e4b0d999840e5091

Answer 25

I have to head out.