 | Harvey Goodwin - Mathematics - 1846 - 468 pages
...(l + n) ' ma ' na n (a> + mx) = Ex. 5. Divide the quantity a into two parts such that the product of the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Let a? = one part ; .-. a- n' = the other; .-. by the question, ax = (a — at):... | |
 | Education - 1847 - 508 pages
...angle contained by these two sides is a light angle. SECTION Il. — 1. To divide a straight line, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. 2. In every triangle the square of the side subtending either of the acute angles... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - School buildings - 1847
...the angle contained by these two sides is a right angle. SECTION II. 1. To divide a straight line, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. 2. In every triangle the square of the side subtending either of the acute angles... | |
 | Euclides - 1848 - 52 pages
...the line bisected, and of the square of the line made up of the half and the part produced. PROP. XI. PROBLEM. To divide a given straight line into two...and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. PROP. XII. THEOREM. In obtuse-angled triangles, if a perpendicular be drawn from... | |
 | J. Goodall, W. Hammond - 1848 - 388 pages
...line intercepted without the triangle between the perpendicular and the obtuse angle. Section 4. 1. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so that...and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. 2. Describe a square that shall be double a given triangle. 3. Prove that the diagonals... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1849 - 560 pages
...upon the necessary homogeneity of algebraical equations, or any demonstration other than Euclid's ? 3. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so that...and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Shew that in Euclid's figure four other lines, beside the given line, are divided... | |
 | Euclid, Thomas Tate - 1849 - 120 pages
...squares of AC, CD: Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. QED Again, because EG F is EF PROP. XI. PROB. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so...contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall Tie equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line; it is required to divide... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1850 - 914 pages
...between the same parallels, are equal to one another. 3. Solve Euc. II. 11. To divide a given finite straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the squire of the other part. 4. Prove Euc. III. 22. The opposite angles of any quadrilateral... | |
 | Her MAjesty' Inspectors of schools - 1850 - 912 pages
...figures, and duplicate ratio. 3. Solve Euc. II. 11. To divide a given finite straight line into two part*, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square of the other jjart. '2. Prove Kuc. 1. 36. Parallelograms upon equal bases,... | |
 | 582 pages
...every respect." Enumerate tlie cases proved in Book 1 and state what ease is omitted. SECTION IT. 1. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so that...and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. 2. If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the square of the whole line... | |
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To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, may be equal to the square of the other part. 
