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Think of that to remember what a reflex angle is: the outside of your knee is always more than 180 degrees.\r\n\r\n\t\r\nAn obtuse angle is in between – so more than 90 degrees but less than 180.\r\n\r\n\r\nMeasuring angles\r\nYou measure angles with a protractor, one of those semi-circular things you had in your pencil case at school.\r\n\r\nHere’s how you measure an angle with a protractor:\r\n\r\n\t\r\nPut the cross-hair in the middle of your protractor over the corner where you want to measure the angle.\r\n\r\n\t\r\nTurn the protractor so that one of the lines going into the angle is on the ‘zero’ line across the bottom of the protractor, to the left of the cross-hair.\r\n\r\n\t\r\nFollow the other line to the edge of the protractor and read the number off the scale – that’s the angle you’re looking for.\r\n\r\n\r\nProtractors are fiddly because they have two different scales running along the same edge and you can easily mix up which one is which. 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Important Angle Measures in Degrees

By: Mary Jane Sterling and

Updated: 04-25-2016

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When you’re figuring out things like lot lines or fencing for your business, you’re working with angles. These figures are the more commonly used angle measures and can help you estimate angles for your business tasks:

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Mary Jane Sterling is the author of four other For Dummies titles: Algebra For Dummies, Algebra II For Dummies, Trigonometry For Dummies, and Math Word Problems For Dummies. She has honed her math-explaining skills during her years of teaching mathematics at all levels: junior high school, high school, and college. She has been teaching at Bradley University, in Peoria, Illinois, for almost 30 of those years.
When not teaching or writing, Mary Jane keeps busy by working with her Kiwanis Club, advising Bradley University’s Circle K Club, and working with members of the Heart of Illinois Aktion Club (for adults with disabilities). All the volunteer projects taken on for these clubs help keep her busy and involved in the community.

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