 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...divided also into equal parts at the points 7J K, L. PROPOSITION XXIII. THEOEEM. In a right-angled triangle, if a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypothenuse. \st. The triangles on each side of the perpendicular are similar to the whole triangle,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1854 - 436 pages
...div'ded also into equal parts at the points I, K, L. PROPOSITION XXIII. THEOREM. In a right•angled triangle, if a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypothenuse. 1st. The triangles on each side of the jxrpendicular are similar to the given triangle,... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, Charles Davies - Geometry - 1857 - 442 pages
...divided also into equal parts at the points I, K, L. PROPOSITION XXIII. THEOREM. In a right•angled triangle, if a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypothenuse. 1st. The triangles on each side of the perpendicular are similat to the given triangle,... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1857 - 608 pages
...be drawn to (he vertices of the triangle ; then AN x BL X CM = AM X CL x BN. 14. In a right angled triangle, if a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypothenuse, 1st. The triangles formed are similar to each other and to the whole triangle. 2d. Either... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1862 - 532 pages
...divided into equal parts at the points I, K, L. PROPOSITION XXVII. — THEOREM. 269. In a right-angled triangle, if a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypothenuse, the triangle will be divided into two triangles similar to the given triangle atul to... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - Mathematics - 1865 - 592 pages
...vertices of the triangle ; the» AN x HI, x CM = AM x CL x BN. 14.' In a right angled triangle, if л perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypothenuse 1st. The triangles formed are similar to each other and to the whole triangle. 2d. Either... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1866 - 328 pages
...divided into equal parts at the points I, K, L. PROPOSITION XXVII. — THEOREM. 269. In a right-angled triangle, if a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypothe«tt.se, the triangle will be divided into two triangles similar to the given triangle and to... | |
 | Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.) - 1870 - 1008 pages
...parallel chords in a circle, is a point in the diameter which is perpendicular to the chords. O. 4. If a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse of a right triangle, (1) the triangles thus formed are similar to each other and to the whole triangle,... | |
 | William Chauvenet - Geometry - 1871 - 380 pages
...in the ratio of similitude of the polygons (40). 10 APPLICATIONS. PROPOSITION XIII.— THEOREM. 44. If a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse of a rigid triangle : 1st. The two triangles thus formed are similar to each other and to the whole... | |
 | André Darré - 1872 - 226 pages
...: A2 : «2 + b2. But A8 = a2 + b2 (90), consequently, S = s + «i. THEOREM. 120. In a right-angled triangle if a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypothenuse, the square or any other figure on the hypothenuse is to the square or other similar figure... | |
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If in a right triangle a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse : I. 
