 | Schools inquiry commission - 1868 - 742 pages
...Is the following a correct solution of the problem, from a given point to draw a straight line equal to a given straight line : Let A be the given point and BC the given straight line ; join AB, and on AB describe the equilateral triangle ADB. Produce DA to E;... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Geometry - 1868 - 294 pages
...then will CD bisect ACS (B. IV. Th. II.). PROBLEM VI. Through a given point to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point and CD the given line. From. A as a centre, with a radius greater than the shortest distance from A to... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - Geometry - 1868 - 338 pages
...parts, into eight, into sixteen, &c. PROBLEM VII. 302. Through a given point, to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and A '-..^ B CD the given straight line. '""--... From A draw a straight line, '"-•-...: AE, to any... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1868 - 434 pages
...was required to be done. PROPOSITION II. PROBLEM. From a given point, to draw a straight line equal to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BCthe given straight line. It is required to draw from the point A, a straight line equal to BC. From... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - Measurement - 1869 - 312 pages
...DF and EF. Then DEF will be the triangle required. 44. Through a given print to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and B (/the given straight line. Take any point D in BC. From the centre D, with the radius DA describe... | |
 | James Maurice Wilson - 1869 - 260 pages
...the construction u tho same as before. COR. 3. Hence through any point a straight line can be drawn parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, JSCthe given line. Draw any line AD to meet BC, and make the angle DAE equal to the alternate angle... | |
 | William Chauvenet - Geometry - 1871 - 380 pages
...also the angles O and A (10). I;' PROPOSITION XXX.— PROBLEM. 75. Through a given point, to draw a parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given line. From any point B in BC draw the straight D line BAD through A. At the point A, by /'... | |
 | Henry William Watson - Geometry - 1871 - 320 pages
...both acute or both obtuse (Bk. I. page 46). PROBLEM 6. Through a given point to draw a straight line parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line. It is required to draw through A a straight line parallel toBC. Take any point... | |
 | Euclides, James Hamblin Smith - Geometry - 1872 - 376 pages
...each, the first pair make the same angles with one another as the second. PROPOSITION XXXI. PROBLEM. To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. E Let A be the given pt. and BC the given st. line. It is required to draw through A a st. line \\... | |
 | Euclid, Charles Peter MASON - Geometry - 1872 - 216 pages
...28th proposition that these two right lines AB and CD are parallel to each other. PROPOSITION XXXI. To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. For the construction requisite in this proposition we must be able, — 1. To join two given points... | |
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To draw a straight line through a given point parallel to a given straight line. Let A be the given point, and BC the given straight line ; it is required to draw a straight line through the point A, parallel to the straight hue BC. 
