 | Education - 1896 - 446 pages
...that a line tangent to a circle is perpendicular to the radius drawn to the point of contact. 6. Prove the area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. How would you prove the same for a parallelogram? 7. Problem: Given the hypotenuse... | |
 | Seth Thayer Stewart - Geometry - 1891 - 426 pages
...v., PROP. XIv.) Dividing both terms of the first couplet by 0 gives PROPOSITION XIII. 352. Theorem : The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. Statement : Let R be any rectangle ; 6, its base ; and a, its altitude. The rectangle R is equal to... | |
 | Edward Albert Bowser - Geometry - 1891 - 424 pages
...the base of the second being S feet and its altitude 39 inches. Proposition 3. Theorem. 360. The-area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. Hyp. Let R be the rectangle, b the base, and a the altitude expressed in numbers of the same linear... | |
 | James Baldwin - Arithmetic - 1891 - 278 pages
...the square or the rectangle ? 5. Draw a triangle having half the area of the square. 6. Learn this : The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its length multiplied by its width. 7. Draw a rectangle 3 in. wide and 5 in. long. Also a triangle 3 in.... | |
 | William Chauvenet - 1893 - 340 pages
...two rectangles are to each other as the products of their bases by their altitudes. PROPOSITION IV. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. PROPOSITION V. The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base and altitude. PROPOSITION... | |
 | Webster Wells - Geometry - 1894 - 398 pages
...are equal. The symbol =o is used for the words " is equivalent to." PROPOSITION III. THEOREM. 305. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. Let a and b be the altitude and base of the rectangle A ; and let B be the unit of surface ; ie, a square... | |
 | George Clinton Shutts - Geometry - 1894 - 412 pages
...sense than that just stated. With this interpretation, the Corollary is usually stated as follows: The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. (b) The numbers which represent the measures of the lines may be integral, fractional, or incommensurable.... | |
 | American Mathematical Society - Mathematics - 1906 - 750 pages
..."that at this early period the Babylonians must have been familiar with the following theorems : 1. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. 2. The area of a square is equal to the square of its side. 3. The area of a right triangle is equal... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth, George Anthony Hill - Geometry - 1894 - 150 pages
...Theorem. Two rectangles are to each other as the products of their bases and altitudes. 245. Theorem. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and its altitude. 246. Theorem. Parallelograms having equal bases and equal altitudes are equivalent. 247.... | |
 | William Chauvenet - Geometry - 1894 - 380 pages
...which represent them when they are measured by the linear unit (III. 8). PROPOSITION III—THEOREM. ' 7 The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its bate and altitude. Let R be any rectangle, k its base and h its altitude numerically expressed in terms... | |
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The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. 
