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All these people saying its 135 are making big assumptions that I think is incorrect. There’s one triangle (the left one) that has the angles 40, 60, 80. The 80 degrees is calculated based on the other angles. What's very important is the fact that these triangles appear to have a shared 90 degree corner, but that is not the case based on what we just calculated. This means the image is not to scale and we must not make any visual assumptions. So that means we can’t figure out the angles of the right triangle since we only have information of 1 angle (the other can’t be figured out since we can’t assume its actually aligned at the bottom since the graph is now obviously not to scale).
Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
135 is correct. Bottom intersection is 80/100, 180-35-100 = 45 for the top of the second triangle. 180 - 45 = 135
Mathematician here; I second this as a valid answer. (It's what I got as well.)
Random guy who didn't sleep in middle school here: I also got the same answer.
Random woman who didn't sleep very well last night. I got a different answer, then thought about it for 10 more seconds and then got 135.
(No I didn't assume the right angle, my mistake was even dumber. I need a nap.)