geometry

[native fulcrum]

The direction is "solve for x and unknown variable" its an assignment which not yet taught us... I've been stuck with this for hours, literally.

[boreal canopy]

oh dear god, i dont know how to solve that either

[signal prairie]

Can we assume the two triangles are congruent?

(Sorry Im not incredibly talented at math I was just looking at other questions while I was waiting for help and this looked kinda familiar)

If they are congruent we have 2 provided angles: 90 and 78, which means we have to use the sum to subtract from 180

becos thats the sum of a triangles interior angles

so 180-168=12

so the unknown angle marked with a sideways x is 12 I think

wait there ARE VARIABLESD

well if they are congruent

we have 2 sides so me can use this one thingy to determine the 3rd side

lemme look at my geometry notes

can't we use compound inequality? it sounds like it...

i jus dont know if it would work with a variable

i got to 2y-25.5 < x < 2y+23.5

[cedar inlet]

I think congruence should be on the right track. From that you can know that
angle TSV = 78°
and VT = 2y - 1

You should be able to then easily solve for x because you have 2 of the 3 angles in the triangle anyway