Elements of Geometry: Plane geometry

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American Book Company, 1896 - Geometry
 

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Page 248 - The area of a regular inscribed hexagon is a mean proportional between the areas of the inscribed and circumscribed equilateral triangles.
Page 215 - 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 63 - To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line ; it is required to draw a straight line through the point A, parallel to the straight hue BC. In BC take any point D, and join AD; and at the point A, in the straight line AD, make (I.
Page 49 - If, from a point within a triangle, two straight lines are drawn to the extremities of either side, their sum will be less than the sum of the other two sides of the triangle.
Page 148 - In any obtuse triangle, the square of the side opposite the obtuse angle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, increased by twice the product of one of these sides and the projection of the other side upon it.
Page 47 - ... the third side of the first is greater than the third side of the second.
Page 149 - Sines that the bisector of an angle of a triangle divides the opposite side into parts proportional to the adjacent sides.
Page 47 - If two triangles have two sides of one equal respectively to two sides of the other...
Page 100 - At a given point in a straight line to erect a perpendicular to that line. Let AB be the straight line, and let c D be a given point in it.
Page 140 - If in a right triangle a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse : I.

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