 The formula states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the base and altitude.  Plane and Solid Geometry - Page 204by Webster Wells, Walter Wilson Hart - 1916 - 467 pagesFull view - About this book
 | George Wentworth, David Eugene Smith - Arithmetic - 1919 - 268 pages
...4.563 4.579 4.595 4.610 4.626 4.642 Exercise. Square Root 1. Recalling the fact that the square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the two sides, find the hypotenuse of a right triangle whose sides are 51 in. and 68... | |
 | Walter Burton Ford, Charles Ammerman - Algebra - 1919 - 376 pages
...how many square feet of lumber it contains. 20. It is shown in Geometry that " the square drawn on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares drawn on the other two sides." Express this rule in a formula, using h for hypotenuse,... | |
 | John Charles Stone, James Franklin Millis - Arithmetic - 1920 - 344 pages
...500 BC that the fact that we find true here is true for any right triangle, viz. that The square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. 5. Carpenters make use of this fact in laying out the foundation... | |
 | Jesse Harliaman Coursault - Education - 1920 - 488 pages
...particular individuals in whose experience they first appeared. The geometric proposition that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, is attributed to Pythagoras; the heliocentric conception of the... | |
 | Teaching - 1921 - 652 pages
...the bat is not a bird. A boy by experiment and constructions has discovered the rule, "The square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides." He has a board and a foot rule, and wishes to ascertain whether... | |
 | Edward Ira Edgerton, Wallace Edgar Bartholomew - Business mathematics - 1922 - 334 pages
...of the Right Triangle. — It is shown in the figure and it is proved in geometry that the square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares formed on each of thelegsof the right triangle. Therefore the hypotenuse equals the square... | |
 | Floyd Dell - Education - 1921 - 226 pages
...true? If it is, why do you teach your children the multiplication table, or the rule that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides — unless in order to save them the trouble of thinking? By the... | |
 | Harry Morton Keal, Clarence J. Leonard - Mathematics - 1921 - 238 pages
...having an acute angle of the one equal to an acute angle of the other are similar. 2. The square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. 3. The perpendicular from the vertex of the right angle of a right... | |
 | John Charles Stone - Mathematics - 1921 - 272 pages
...of a circle is ir times the square of the number of linear units in the radius. r.) 9. The square on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the two sides. (_ff, A, .6.) 10. The volume of a cube is the cube of one of its edges.... | |
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