I am having trouble doing this math question so can you please help me?

Question

The degree measures of two consecutive angles of a rhombus are represented by 5x + 10 and 3x + 50. Find x

the point is i don't understand the word consecutive means. Does it mean the same or not the same.

Answer 1

consecutive means one next to the other, like top right then bottom right. Or the two at the top, or the two at the bottom. Draw a picture, label the angles, write the equation. Remember the opposite angles are congruent so you can add them all up and set equal to 360.

Answer 2

A rhombus is a four-cornered figure, and consecutive angles will be adjacent: they are consecutive in the sense that if you walk around the figure, you will encounter them consecutively. And this gives away the problem; since the opposite sides are parallel, the sum of two consecutive angles must be 180 degrees, and you can use that datum to construct an equation and solve for the variable.

Answer 3

forget about the "consecutive" word... they usually put that there just to annoy the hell out of us...
consecutive usually means: that come after each other, in an order...
example: a triangle abc has the consecutive angles 60 40 and 100 meaning that a=60, b=40 and c=100..
in your case, the "consecutive angles" are angles that come right agter each other, not facing each other...
so good luck on that, hope i helped

Answer 4

Look it up in your Funk and Wagnalls. Consectutive means next to each other. So for the rhombus, 2 consectutive angles add up to 180 degrees. So 5x+10 + 3x +50 =180. See if you find x.

Answer 5

they mean next to each other. so if you have the top right, concecutive angles would be bottom right or the top left. but it cant be bottom left. like concecutive numbers on a clock, if you are at 5 it is either 6 or 4. you cant skip to 11. get it? math has picky kinda confusing word usages