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Question
The complement of an acute angle is ..............
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Solution
The complement of an acute angle is an acute angle.
Explanation:
As the sum of the complementary angles is 90°.
Let one of the angle measures x°.
Then, other angle becomes (90 - x)°, which is clearly an acute angle.
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