 | Euclides - 1862 - 172 pages
...of AD, DB, are double of the squares of AC, CD. Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. QED PROP. XI.— PROBLEM. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that tlie rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other... | |
 | University of Oxford - Education, Higher - 1863 - 316 pages
...lines make the alternate angles equal to one another, the two straight lines shall be parallel. 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 on the other part. 8. Describe a square that shall be equal... | |
 | Euclides - 1864 - 262 pages
...AD, DB are double of the squares on AC, CD. Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. QED PROPOSITION XI. PROBLEM. To divide a given straight line into two...that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square on the other part. Let AB be the given straight line. It... | |
 | Henry White - 1864 - 156 pages
...equal to the squares of the two parts, together with twice the rectangle contained by the parts. 5. 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. 6. Draw a straight line from a given point,... | |
 | Woolwich roy. military acad - 1864 - 588 pages
...-0378642. (2) To find the amount of ll. in 37 years at 4^ per cent, per annum compound interest. 11. 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 on the other part. State the purpose of a proposition in... | |
 | Euclides - 1864 - 448 pages
...AD, DB are double of the squares on AC, CD. Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. QED PROPOSITION XI. PROBLEM. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle cnntnined by the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square oii the other part. Let AB... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1865 - 528 pages
...of the squares on AC, CD. Wherefore, if a straight liue, &c. QED PROPOSITION XI. PROBLEM. To divitfe 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 on the otlier part. Let AB be the given straight line. It... | |
 | Euclides - 1865 - 402 pages
...acute angle and the perpendicular let fall upon it from the opposite angle s. . . n. 13. Problems. 1. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle under the whole and one of the parts is equal to the square on the other part . . . . . . n. 11. 2.... | |
 | 1867 - 224 pages
...angle is equal to the squares described on the sides which contain the right angle. [Turn over. 8. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square on the other part. 9. To a given straight line apply a parallelogram,... | |
 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1867 - 424 pages
...shew that the square on BC is equal to the rectangle AB, BF, together with the rectangle AC, CE. 161. Divide a given straight line into two parts so that the rectangle contained by them may be equal to the square described on a given straight line which is less than half the straight... | |
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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 on the other part. 
