 In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs.  First Year Algebra - Page 256by Webster Wells, Walter Wilson Hart - 1912 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Morris Philips, Robert Franklin Anderson - Arithmetic - 1913 - 444 pages
...drawn from the vertex opposite the base to the base, or the base extended. BASE BASE Important Facts 1. In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals...the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Thus, the square whose side is AC contains as many square units as the two squares whose sides are AB and... | |
 | George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith - Algebra - 1913 - 478 pages
...squares on А В and BC. It is proved in geometry that this is true for all right triangles. Therefore, in a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. ' The hypotenuse equals the square root of the sum of the squares of the other... | |
 | George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith - Algebra - 1913 - 312 pages
...squares on AB and BC. It is proved in geometry that this is true for all right triangles. Therefore, in a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. The hypotenuse equals the square root of the sum of the squares of the other two... | |
 | Horace Wilmer Marsh - Mathematics - 1913 - 460 pages
...Square of the Hypotenuse. The hypotenuse of a right triangle is the side opposite the right angle. The square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. 7. Area of a Trapezoid. A trapezoid is a quadrilateral having two sides parallel... | |
 | William Henry Dooley - Mathematics - 1915 - 364 pages
...right angles to each other. EQUILATERAL ISOSCELES SCALENE RIGHT KINDS OF TRIANGLES Right Triangles In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs. If the length of the hypotenuse and one leg of a right triangle is known,... | |
 | William Henry Dooley - Mathematics - 1915 - 364 pages
...right angles to each other. EQUILATERAL ISOSCELES SCALENE RIGHT KINDS OF TRIANGLES Right Triangles In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs. If the length of the hypotenuse and one leg of a right triangle is known,... | |
 | Claude Irwin Palmer, Daniel Pomeroy Taylor - Geometry, Plane - 1915 - 296 pages
...hypotenuse adjacent to that side; that is, c2 : a2 = c : a', and c2 : b2 — c : b'. 438. Theorem. The square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the two sides. Proof. In each proportion of § 435, take the product of the means equal to the product... | |
 | John Paul Kottcamp - Mechanics, Applied - 1915 - 202 pages
...force can be determined as follows: In Fig. 2, since OSCO is a right-angled traingle, P2 = SC + OC (the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides), but SC = OD = V and OC = H ; therefore p2 = //2 + F2 or P = VH'r+V2 (3) The tangent... | |
 | James Henry Breasted - Egypt - 1916 - 884 pages
...Italy, was Pythagoras. He investigated mathematics and natural science. He or his pupils discovered that the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides of a rightangled triangle. They also found out that the length of a musical string... | |
 | William Henry Dooley - Arithmetic - 1917 - 388 pages
...right angles to each other. EQUILATERAL ISOSCELES SCALENE RIGHT KINDS OF TRIANGLES Right Triangles In a right triangle the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides or legs. If the length of the hypotenuse and one leg of a right triangle is known,... | |
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