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 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1807 - 464 pages
...yas the distance between each station and the house? . (593-08 yards. Ans'{ 612-38 EXAM. xx. Wanting to know the breadth of a river, I measured a base of 509 yards in a straight line close by one side of it; and at each end of this line I found the angles... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 442 pages
...the distance between each station and the house ? A r 593-08 yards. **"• 1612-38 EXAM. xx. Wanting to know the breadth of a river, I , measured a base of 500 yards in a straight line close by one side of it ; and at each end of this line I found the angles subtended by the other end and... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1812 - 620 pages
...13'. What then was the distance between each station and the house ? 593'08 yard8EXAM. xx. Wanting to know the breadth of a river, I measured a base of 500 yards in a straight line close by one side of it ; and at each end of this line I found the angles subtended by the other end and... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1816 - 610 pages
...station and the house ? A (59308 yards. Ans'J 612-38 EXAM. xx. Wanting to know the breadth of a rirer, I measured a base of 500 yards in a straight line close by one side of it ; and at each end of this line I found the angles subtended by the other end and... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...and 73* 15'. What then was the diglance between each station and the house ? Ans. EXAM. xx. Wanting to know the breadth of a river, I measured a base of 500 yards in a straight line close by one side of it ; and at each end of this line I found the angles sabtended by the other end and... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1831 - 632 pages
...ship and the fort ? . $ 2292 26 yards. •""' $2298-05 EXAM. xix. Wanting to know the breadth of n river, I measured a base of 500 yards in a straight line close by one aide of it ; and at each end of this line I found the angles «ubtended by the other end and... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1832 - 290 pages
...What then was the distance between each station and the house? . 4593.08 "'s'i 612.38 Ex. 6. Wanting to know the breadth of a river, I measured a base of 500 yards in a straight line close by one side of it, and at each end of this line I found the angles subtended by the other end and a... | |
 | John D. Williams - Algebra - 1840 - 634 pages
...98° 45'. What then was the distance between the house and mill ? Ans. 959.5866 yards. 40. Wanting to know the breadth of a river, I measured a base of 500 yards in a straight line close by one side of it; and at each end of this line I found the angles subtended by the other end and a... | |
 | Richard Abbatt - Spherical astronomy - 1841 - 234 pages
...distance of the steeple ? Answer, Height = 210 • 44 feet. Distance =250 • 79 feet. 1 1 . Wanting to know the breadth of a river, I measured a base of 500 yards, along the edge of the water, and observed the angles at each end of this line which a tree upon the... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1856 - 622 pages
...= -000754 )2-997738( 3976 2262 2 7367 7902 miles the diameter. 6786 5713 «278 4358 4524 8. Wanting to know the breadth of a river, I measured a base of 600 yards in a straight line close to its edge, and at each end of it I found the angle« subtended... | |
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