| College Entrance Examination Board - Mathematics - 1920 - 108 pages
...3 miles per hour more. Find the number of days required for the trip. 6. In a given right triangle a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse. Prove that this perpendicular divides the* given right triangle into two similar triangles,... | |
| Military Academy, West Point - 1934 - 964 pages
...ртт line at a fixed point? Illustrate by a figure. Complete the following statements: (A) In a right triangle, if a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right the hypotenuse, each side ahout the right angle is a mean proportional (i) The sum of all the angles... | |
| Harvard University - Education - 1876 - 324 pages
...triangles are similar when they have their sides parallel each to each, or perpendicular each to each. 4. If a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypothenuse of a right triangle : — (1) The two triangles thus formed are similar to each other and to the whole... | |
| William Weller Strader, Lawrence D. Rhoads - Geometry, Plane - 1927 - 434 pages
...from the vertex to the base plus the product of the segments of the base. 20. In a right triangle, a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle to the hypotenuse. Show that the areas of the two triangles thus formed have the same ratio as the squares... | |
| Ravi Kumar - Mathematics - 2006 - 152 pages
...ZC = ZF ; AX, DY are the bisectors of ZA and ZD respectively. BC AX To prove:— = — . Theorem 22. If a perpendicular is drawn from the vertex of the right angle of a right triangle to the hypotenuse, the triangles on each side of the perpendicular are similar... | |
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