The third side is called the base of the isosceles triangle, and the equal sides are called the sides. A triangle which has no two sides equal is called a scalene triangle. The distance from one point to another is the length of the straight line-segment... New Plane and Solid Geometry - Page 29by Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - 1899 - 382 pagesFull view - About this book
| Charles Ambrose Van Velzer, George Clinton Shutts - Geometry - 1894 - 524 pages
...compare iu length with A Bl Prop. XXXII. Sue. 3. Compare your answer with the hypothesis. Therefore 109. The distance from a point to a line is the length of the perpendicular from the point to the line. Ex. 61. Lines which are perpendicular to parallel lines are parallel. Ex. 62.... | |
| Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Geometry - 1895 - 346 pages
...equilateral it is also equiangular. For by the theorem the angles opposite the equal sides are equal. DEFINITIONS. The line from any vertex of a triangle...surface), distance may be measured on a curved line. Theorem 4. If two angles of a triangle are equal, the sides opposite those angles are equal. Given... | |
| Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Geometry - 1895 - 344 pages
...equilateral it is also equiangular. For by the theorem the angles opposite the equal sides are equal. DEFINITIONS. The line from any vertex of a triangle...this perpendicular is unique will be proved later. 24 Theorem 4. If two angles of a triangle are equal, the sides opposite those angles are equal. Given... | |
| Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Geometry, Modern - 1899 - 265 pages
...of the opposite side is called the median to that side. In the above figure, CM is the median to AB. The third side is called the base of the isosceles...the figure of prop. III, A AMC ^ A BMC, as proved. .\AM = MB, and Z CMA = Z.BMC, and hence each is a right angle. In cases of this kind the points A and... | |
| Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Geometry, Modern - 1899 - 272 pages
...the opposite side is called the median to that side. i In the above figure, CM is the median to AB. The third side is .called the base of the isosceles...on a curved line. 68. In the figure of prop. III, A A MC ^ A BMC, as proved. .-.AM = MB, and Z CMA = ZBMC, and hence each is a right angle. In cases... | |
| Edward Rutledge Robbins - Geometry, Plane - 1906 - 268 pages
...to PXat its mid- A point (Const.). .-.PC=cx (66). .-.PR+ PR < PC+PC (Ax. 6). That is, 2PR < 2PC. 78. The distance from a point to a line is the length of the perpendicular from the point to the line. Thus " distance from a line " involves the perpendicular. If the perpendiculars... | |
| Edward Rutledge Robbins - Geometry - 1907 - 428 pages
...its mid- * point (Const.). .'. PC=Cx (66). .'. PR+ PR < PC+PC (Ax. 6). That is, 2 PR < 2 PC. \ 78. The distance from a point to a line is the length of the perpendicular from the point to the line. Thus " distance from a line " involves the perpendicular. If the perpendiculars... | |
| George William Myers - Mathematics - 1909 - 390 pages
...triangle. In problem 5, where does the center of the circle lie with respect to the triangle ? 294. The distance from a point to a line is the length of the perpendicular from the point to the line. The symbol _I_ stands for "perpendicular," "perpendicular to," or "is perpendicular... | |
| William Betz, Harrison Emmett Webb, Percey Franklyn Smith - Geometry, Plane - 1912 - 360 pages
...Method. 235. The distance between two points is the length of the line-segment joining them. § 228 236. The distance from a point to a line is the length of the perpendicular let fall from that point upon the line. § 227 237. The distance between two parallel lines is the... | |
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