| Hoy D. Orton - Ready-reckoners - 1871 - 202 pages
...the corner a true right-angle. To find the area of any triangle when the three tides only are given. RULE. — From half the sum of the three sides subtract each side severally; multiply these three remainders and the said half sum continually together ; 'hen the square root of... | |
| Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 302 pages
...What is the area of an isosceles triangle whose base is 20 ft., and each of its equal sides 15 feet 1 RULE. — From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side teparately ; multiply the half -sum and the three remainders together; the square root of the product... | |
| Daniel W. Fish - Arithmetic - 1874 - 300 pages
...What is the area of an isosceles triangle whose base is 20 ft., and each of its equal sides 15 feet ? RULE. — From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side separately ; multiply the half-surn ami the three remainders together; the square root of the product... | |
| Lorenzo Fairbanks - 1875 - 472 pages
...perpendicular 18.25 chains ? PROBLEM III. 710. To find the area of a triangle when three sides are given. RULE. — From half the sum of the three sides subtract each side separately. Then multiply the half sum and the three remainders continually together, and the square... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - Arithmetic - 1875 - 468 pages
...of an isosceles triangle whose base is 20 ft., each of its equal sides 15 ft. ? Ans. 111.85 sq. ft. RULE, from half the sum of the three sides subtract each side separately ; multiply the half-sum and the three remainders together ; the square root of the product... | |
| Henry Lewis (M.A.) - Measurement - 1875 - 104 pages
...CASE II. — The area of a triangle may, however, be determined from its three sides by the following rule: — From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side separately; then multiply the half sum and the three remainders together, and the square root of the... | |
| John Barter (of the science and art coll, Plymouth.) - 1877 - 328 pages
...the journey is completed ? EXERCISE CCXV. Having the three sides of any triangle given, to find its area. Rule. — From half the sum of the three sides subtract each side separately, multiply the half sum and the three remainders together, and the square root of the last... | |
| Stoddard A. Felter, Samuel Ashbel Farrand - Arithmetic - 1877 - 496 pages
...= 9, 2d remainder. 27 — 24 = 3, 3d remainder. 27 X 15 X 9 X 3 = 10935. y 10935 = 104.57 sq. rds. area. RULE. — From half the sum of the three sides subtract each side separately ; then multiply the continued product of these remainders by half the sum of the sides,... | |
| William James Milne - Arithmetic - 1877 - 402 pages
...the product of the base by the altitude. When the three sides are given, the following is the rule: RULE. — From half the sum of the three sides subtract each side separately. Multiply together the half sum and the three remainders, and extract the square root of... | |
| George Albert Wentworth - Geometry - 1877 - 416 pages
...figure. § 424 GEOMETRY. — BOOK V. EXERCISES. 1. The area of any triangle may be found as follows : From half the, sum of the three sides subtract each side severally, multiply together the half sum and the three remainders, and extract the square root of the product.... | |
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