 | Euclides - 1855 - 230 pages
...In like manner it may be proved, that similar four-sided figures, or figures of any number of sides, are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides, as has already been proved in the case of triangles. Therefore, universally, similar rectilineal figures... | |
 | Euclides - 1855 - 270 pages
...and this has been proved of triangles (VI. 19). Therefore, universally, similar rectilineal figures are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. COROLLARY 2, — If to AB and FG, two of the homologous sides of the polygon, a third proportional... | |
 | Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 200 pages
...are proportionals. Shew how this proposition may be proved by superposition as in Prop. 4, B. 1. 4. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. What can you infer from this as to the ratio of squares to each other ? 5. Describe a rectilineal figure... | |
 | Middle-class education - 1857 - 70 pages
...the algebraical expression for the mean proportional between two given quantities ? 19. Prove that similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 20. Show that, if an equilateral triangle be inscribed in a circle, the square of its side is equal... | |
 | Henry Latham - 1857 - 390 pages
...triangle. 7. Give Dcf. 5, Book V. of Euclid, and shew whether the areas 3, 4, 7, 8 are proportionals. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. Shew how to inscribe a rectangle DEFG in a triangle ABC, so that the angles D, E may be in the straight... | |
 | 1857 - 408 pages
...the base, the triangles on each^side of it are similar to the whole triangle and to one another. 2. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 3. The rectangle contained by the diagonals of a quadrilateral inscribed in a circle is equal to both... | |
 | sir Thomas Dyke Acland (11th bart.) - 1858 - 270 pages
...the algebraical expression for the mean proportional between two given quantities ? 19. Prove that similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 20. Show that, if an equilateral triangle be inscribed in a circle, the square of its side is equal... | |
 | Sandhurst roy. military coll - 1859 - 672 pages
...Extract the square root of 321489. Voluntary Portion. 1. To describe a circle about a given square. 2. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 3. One of the two digits of a number is double the other, and if 27 be added to the number the digits... | |
 | Thomas Lund - Geometry - 1859 - 390 pages
...= / a, JP -# a, tt/ DX * Sometimes called 'homologous sides'. 'f- Euclid's enunciation of this is: 'Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides'. X zB=z&, zC=zc; then AB, ab being any two corresponding, or homologous, sides, the triangle ABC shall... | |
 | EDUCATION SOCIETY'S PRESS, CULLA - 1860 - 612 pages
...has to the fourth ? The sides about the equal angles of equiangular triangles are proportionals. 12. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. LOGIC. I.—LOWER STANDARD. What ii the use of words ? Explain First and Second Intention. 2. Give... | |
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Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 
