 | E. J. Brooksmith - Mathematics - 1889 - 356 pages
...divided into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by them may be the greatest possible? 6. Draw a straight line from a given point, either without...the circumference, which shall touch a given circle. Draw the common tangents to two circles which cut one another. 7. Define the segment of a circle. A... | |
 | Royal Military College, Sandhurst - Mathematics - 1890 - 144 pages
...the difference of the squares on AD and AC is equal to the rectangle contained by BD and CD. 2. Draw a straight line from a given point, either without or in the circumference, to touch a given circle. 3. If ABC be an acute-angled triangle inscribed in a circle (SAC being the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1861 - 588 pages
...of half the base, and of the line joining the point of bisection with the opposite angle. 7. To draw a straight line from a given point, either without...the circumference, which shall touch a given circle. 8. The opposite angles of any quadrilateral figure inscribed in a circle, are together equal to two... | |
 | Cowley Oxon, dioc. school - 1860 - 318 pages
...contained by the whole and one of the parts ehall be equal to the square of the other part. 7. To draw a straight line from a given point, either without...circumference,, which shall touch a given circle. 8. The angle in a semicircle is a right angle. 9. If from a point without a circle there be drawn two... | |
 | British Columbia. Superintendent of Education - 1897 - 710 pages
...intercepted between the perpendicular let fall on it from the opposite angle, and the acute angle. 3. To draw a straight line from a given point, either without...or in the circumference, which shall touch a given cirle. 4. In a given circle to inscribe an equilateral and equiangular pentagon. 5. Define (a) Ratio,... | |
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To draw a straight line from a given point, either without or in the circumference, which shall touch a given circle. First, let A be a given point without the given circle BCD : it is required to draw a straight line from A which shall touch the circle. 
