In a triangle, the angles are in the ratio 2:3:4. What is the measure of the largest angle?
Category: Math · Difficulty: expert
Hint: Remember that all angles in a triangle sum to 180 degrees.
Answer
120 degrees
Explanation
Let the angles be 2x, 3x, and 4x. Thus, 9x = 180, giving x = 20, so the largest angle is 4x = 80.
This is a expert math riddle — one of the harder riddles here. The answer is 120 degrees.
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