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Thank you We sneak and here's your daily scribble brought

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to you by math crimes If you're ever caught stealing

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a number your case will be handled by the subtraction

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division All right you're an undercover cop and you're trying

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to infiltrate the biggest baddest math gang in town You

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need to rise up in the ranks and get close

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to the leader to see if the rumors of math

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crimes or true you've finally got a meeting with the

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gang's leader a triangle expert and you need to prove

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yourself to her She just asked you to construct a

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triangle whose angles are eighty degrees fifty four degrees and

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fifty six degrees And yeah she's testing you to see

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if you can hang with the big dogs Can you

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make a triangle out of those three angles Why or

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why not Well you might be tempted to whip a

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protractor and start drawing this thing right away But hold

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up when were given three different angles and asked to

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make a triangle out of them We should always test

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the angles out first We can't just make trying a

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lot of any old trio of angles we need to

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Make sure this is even physically possible right How do

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we do that Well there's One specific rule about triangles

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All three angles need tto add up to one hundred

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eighty degrees period where the triangle won't physically possibly be

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able to connect your the most respected math cop on

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the force So how would you pass her test Well

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add up all three angles she gave you got eighty

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fifty four and fifty six Well eighty plus fifty for

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we get one hundred thirty four plus fifty six that

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gives us yeah one hundred ninety So that's ten degrees

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Too many in this triangle expert is trying to trip

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you up You just calmly say to her that triangle

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is impossible They smile You passed your test You probably 00:01:33.097 --> [endTime] don't have to act so smug about

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