 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - School buildings - 1855 - 976 pages
...upon the other two sides of it, the angle contained by those two sides is a right angle. 3. Divide a straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Section 3. 1. The angles in the same segment... | |
 | John Playfair - Geometry - 1855 - 334 pages
..., and the proposition is evident from this algebraical equality. PROP. XI. PROB. To divide a givrn straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, may be equal to the square of the other part. I Let AB be the given straight line; it... | |
 | Euclides - 1855 - 270 pages
...straight line which joins the points of the bisection of the diagonals. . PROP. D. PROBLEM. — To divide a given straight line into two parts so that the rectangle contained by its segments shall be equal to a given square, not greater than the square of half the given straight... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...rectangles contained by the whole and each of the parts, are together equal to the square of the whole line. 7. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so...that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. 8. If two circles cut one another, they... | |
 | Henry White - 1856 - 168 pages
...one side of it are either two right angles, or are together equal to two right angles. 18 Divide a straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and ono of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. 19 If two circles cut each other,... | |
 | Henry Latham - 1857 - 390 pages
...parallelograms thus formed shall pass through the same point. 3. Shew by diagram that a (b + c} = ab + ac. To divide a given straight line into two parts so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Give the full construction. 4. Define... | |
 | War office - 1858 - 578 pages
...contained by the parts. If the line be bisected, what do the rectangles contained by the parts become ? 4. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole line and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. NATURAL SCIENCES. By MAJOR-GEN.... | |
 | Euclides - 1858 - 248 pages
...exercises for the learner. " — LARDNEB'S Euclid, pp. 79 and 80. PROP. 11. — PROB. To divide a given line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. SOL. — 46. I. To describe a square on... | |
 | Euclides - 1858 - 136 pages
...ijivru. ihr .«'iíe». o;' the reetnnt/lii e,m be found. BOOK II. 105 PRоP. XI. PRоB. To divide a line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. SoL. 46. I, 10. I, 3. I. Pat i. 2. DEM.... | |
 | Sandhurst roy. military coll - 1859 - 672 pages
...extremities of equal and parallel straight lines toward the same parts are themselves equal. 3. To divide a straight line into two parts so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square on the other part. 4. In a circle the angle in a semicircle... | |
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To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. 
