Use a drawing of counters to show 5 and then +7

Find the value of a. the diagram is not to scale. a quadrilateral is drawn. the upper and lower sides are parallel. the interior angle in the upper left corner is labeled a degrees. the angle in the upper right corner is labeled 113 degrees. the angle in the lower right corner is labeled b degrees. the angle in the lower left corner is labeled 36 degrees. a. 36 b. 144 c. 54 d. 126

Find the value of x that will make l ll m

My hour hand points between the 8 and the 9 in 35 minutes it will be the next hour. what time is it ?