[Math] How to find missing angles in a quadrilateral

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I have a quadrilateral ABCD, with diagonals AC and BD.
Given are four angles: ∠DAC = 20°, ∠CAB = 60°, ∠ABD = 50°, and ∠DBC = 30°.

quadrilateral

Those are the red angles in the above image.

I need to fill in all the other angles. Most are trivial – the angles in blue – but how do I find ∠BDC and ∠ACD? Their sum is 110, obviously, but I can't figure out how to find the individual angles.

Edit: Note that the red angles are examples; I'm looking for a general solution given any values for these angles that form a convex quadrilateral. (They do if ∠DAC + ∠CAB + ∠ABD < 180° and ∠CAB + ∠ABD + ∠DBC < 180; in that case you can draw triangles ABD and ABC and then quadrilateral ABCD.)

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