 | George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1899 - 500 pages
...equal parts on the transversal AC; that is, the line DE bisects AC. 189. COR. 2. The line which joins the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side, and is equal to half the third side. A line drawn through D, the middle point of AB, II to BC, passes through... | |
 | George Albert Wentworth - Geometry, Solid - 1899 - 246 pages
...base of a triangle and bisects one side, it bisects the other side also. 189. The line which joins the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side, and is equal to half the third side. 190. The median of a trapezoid is parallel to the bases, and is equal... | |
 | Seymour Eaton - 1899 - 362 pages
...divided by its diagonals are equal to one another. • 3. Prove that the straight line which joins the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the base. Lesson No. 18 PROPOSITION 40. THEOREM Equal triangles, on equal bases in the same straight line,... | |
 | Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Geometry, Modern - 1899 - 272 pages
...of a triangle, parallel to another side, bisects the third side. 3. The line joining the mid-points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side. For if not, suppose through the mid-point of one of those sides a line is drawn parallel to the base;... | |
 | Wooster Woodruff Beman, David Eugene Smith - Geometry - 1899 - 412 pages
...Draw a third parallel through the vertex. Then cor. 1 proves it. 3. The line joining the mid-points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side. For if not, suppose through the mid-point of one of those sides a line is drawn parallel to the base... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Ashton - Geometry, Analytic - 1902 - 306 pages
...problems 6, 7, and 8 lie on a line, and find the ratio of their distances from each other. 7410. Show that the line joining the middle points of two sides...triangle is parallel to the third side and equal to one half of it 11. Show that the diagonals of a square or rhombus are perpendicular to each other.... | |
 | Linda Bostock, Suzanne Chandler, F. S. Chandler - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1979 - 660 pages
...In Questions 1—8 give proofs based on vector methods. 1) Prove that the line joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and equal to half of it. 2) Prove that the internal bisectors of the angles of a triangle are concurrent. 3) Prove that... | |
 | Howard Whitley Eves - History - 1983 - 292 pages
...FM, EN. Then FE is parallel to BC and equal to one-half of BC (the line segment joining the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side and is equal to one-half the third side). Similarly, MN is parallel to BC and is equal to one-half of BC.... | |
 | G.E. Martin - Mathematics - 1997 - 536 pages
...quadrilaterals in absolute geometry are contained in Theorem 22.4. • 22.16 The line through the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side. 22.17 Theorem 22.17 could have followed Definition 21.9. Why didn't it? Would this rearrangement have... | |
 | Research & Education Association Editors, Ernest Woodward - Mathematics - 2012 - 1080 pages
...product of the lac . . extremes: — - — ** ad - be \bd (2) A line segment which joins the midpoints of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side of the triangle, and its length is one-half the length of the third side. (3) If a line is parallel... | |
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The straight line joining the middle points of two sides of a triangle is parallel to the third side, and equal to half of it. 
