 | Silas Ellsworth Coleman - Arithmetic - 1897 - 180 pages
...follows that triangles having equal bases and equal altitudes are equivalent. 92. A triangle having one right angle is called a right triangle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypothenuse, and the other two sides, the legs. If a right triangle be constructed having legs 3 and... | |
 | Arthur A. Dodd, B. Thomas Chace - Geometry - 1898 - 468 pages
...and have the A scalene.] Show the three altitudes of a right triangle. [ How many are drawn?] 28. In a right triangle the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. 29. Obtuse triangles and acute triangles are called oblique triangles. 30. The three lines drawn from... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Geometry, Plane - 1899 - 278 pages
...three of its angles are acute angles; an equiangular triangle, when its three angles are equal. 122. In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides the legs. 123. The side on which a triangle is supposed to stand is called... | |
 | Charles Austin Hobbs - Geometry, Plane - 1899 - 266 pages
...has three acute angles. An equiangular triangle is one that has three equal angles. Right. Obtiue. In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides are called thei legs. I The side on which a triangle is supposed to stand is... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1899 - 496 pages
...three of its angles are acute angles; an equiangular triangle, when its three angles are equal. 122. In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse, and the other two sides the legs. 123. The side on which a triangle is supposed to stand is called... | |
 | William James Milne - Geometry, Modern - 1899 - 258 pages
...will be equal. 95. A triangle, one of whose angles is a right angle, is called a Right Triangle. In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. 96. A triangle, one of whose angles is an obtuse angle, is called an Obtuse Triangle. 97. A triangle,... | |
 | R. W. Dale - Atonement - 1899 - 584 pages
...eternal and immutable law. The case is precisely analogous to that of mathematical necessity. Given a triangle in which one of the angles is a right angle, and the square of the hypothenuse will be equal to the sum of the squares of the perpendicular and... | |
 | Charles Thomas Millis - Patternmaking - 1899 - 480 pages
...ways, do not meet. Triangle. — A figure bounded by three lines is called a triangle. A triangle of which one of the angles is a right angle is called a right-angled triangle (Fig. 3) ; and the side which joins the two sides containing the right angle... | |
 | Thomas Franklin Holgate - Geometry - 1901 - 462 pages
...right angle or one obtuse angle, the other two angles must he acute. DEFINITION. A triangle which has a right angle is called a right triangle. The side...opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. 62. COROLLARY II. From a point outside a given straight line, not more than one perpendicular to the... | |
 | William Nicholas Hailmann - Geometry - 1901 - 88 pages
...right-angled obtuse-angled acute-angled Triangles J i named by their sides equilateral isosceles scalene 8. In a right triangle, the side opposite the right angle is called the hypotenuse. The other two sides are the sides forming the right angle. 54 GEOMETRY. 9. A triangle may be supposed... | |
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A B A triangle with a right angle is called a right triangle. The side opposite the right angle in a right triangle is called the hypotenuse of the right triangle. 
