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ABCD acute angle adjacent angles altitude angle formed angles are equal apothem axes of symmetry axioms base bisects central angle chord circle tangent circumscribed coincide congruent corresponding sides Definition diagonal diameter distance divided dodecagon Draw drawn equal angles equal circles equiangular equilateral triangle EXERCISES exterior angle figure Find the area Find the locus Find the radius fixed point geometric Give the proof given point given segment given triangle Hence hypotenuse hypothesis inches inscribed intersection isosceles trapezoid isosceles triangle length line-segment measure meet middle points number of sides Outline of Proof parallel lines parallelogram perigon perimeter plane proof in full quadrilateral radii ratio rectangle regular hexagon regular octagon regular polygon rhombus right angles right triangle secant semicircle Show shown square straight angle straight line subtend SUGGESTION THEOREM trapezoid triangle ABC vertex vertices width ᎠᏴ
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Page 223 - If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other...
Page 41 - An exterior angle of a triangle is equal to the sum of the two opposite interior angles.
Page 121 - Sines that the bisector of an angle of a triangle divides the opposite side into parts proportional to the adjacent sides.
Page 60 - The straight line joining the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and equal to half of it 46 INTERCEPTS BY PARALLEL LINES.
Page 182 - The areas of two regular polygons of the same number of sides are to each other as the squares of their radii, or as the squares of their apothems.
Page 161 - The formula states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the base and altitude.
Page 227 - Find the locus of a point such that the difference of the squares of its distances from two fixed points is a constant.
Page 210 - The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude.
Page 31 - Kuclid divided unproved propositions into two classes: axioms, or "common notions," which are true of all things, such as, " If things are equal to the same thing they are equal to each other"; and postulates, which apply only to geometry, such as,