 | Arthur Schultze, Frank Louis Sevenoak - Geometry - 1902 - 394 pages
...754. A rectangular field is 24 yds. long and 15 yds. wide. Find the area. PROPOSITION IV. THEOREM 341. The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. K a Hyp. ABCD is a parallelogram, having the base AB = b, and the altitude BE... | |
 | Samuel Wesley Baird - Arithmetic - 1901 - 174 pages
...Find the cost of cementing a cellar bottom 54 ft. .long and 18| ft. wide, at 62|/ a square yard. Since the area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its length and breadth, either side will equal the area divided by the other side. 6. A blackboard has... | |
 | Arthur Schultze, Frank Louis Sevenoak - Geometry - 1901 - 394 pages
...field is 24 yds. long and 15 yds. wide. Find the area. PLANE GEOMETRY PROPOSITION IV. THEOREM 341. The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. E Hyp. ABCD is a parallelogram, having the base AB = b, and the altitude BE =... | |
 | Edward Brooks - Geometry, Modern - 1901 - 278 pages
...Similarly the second power of a number is called the square of the number. PROPOSITION V. — THEOREM. The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. Given. — Let ABCD be any parallelogram, AB its base, and BE its altitude. To... | |
 | Frank Joseph Schneck - Business mathematics - 1902 - 312 pages
...rectangle? How does the altitude of one ,, _' -F compare with that of the A Jit JJ , other? Principle. — The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base and altitude. PROBLEMS 1. Find the area of a parallelogram whose base is 16 rd. and whose altitude is 8 rd. 2. What... | |
 | Frank Joseph Schneck - Business mathematics - 1902 - 288 pages
...the rectangle? How does the altitude of one ( , j. compare with that of the other? Principle.—The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base and altitude. PROBLEMS 1. Find the area of a parallelogram whose base is 16 rd. and whose altitude is 8 rd. 2. What... | |
 | Edith Long, William Charles Brenke - Algebra - 1913 - 300 pages
...rectangle is formed on b and h as sides and with the same area as the parallelogram ABCD. Corollary 1. The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. That is, a = bh. Corollary 2. All parallelograms having equal bases and altitudes... | |
 | Walter Burton Ford, Charles Ammerman - Geometry, Solid - 1913 - 184 pages
...their bases; two rectangles that have equal bases are to each other as their altitudes. 186. Theorem I. The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. 187. Corollary 1. (a) Two parallelograms are to each other as the products of... | |
 | William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1914 - 524 pages
...resulting figure will be a rectangle of the same area, base, and altitude as the BASE parallelogram. The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base and altitude, expressed in like units. ' ' " and Written Exercises Estimate results mentally before solving. Find... | |
 | George E. Mercer, Mabel Bonsall - Arithmetic - 1914 - 324 pages
...should be given practice in drawing them until the mention of a name calls forth an appropriate drawing. The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base and altitude. The base and altitude must be expressed in units of the same kind. The diagonal of a parallelogram... | |
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The area of a parallelogram is equal to the product of its base and its height: A = bx h. 
