 | Henry Latham - 1857 - 390 pages
...parallelograms thus formed shall pass through the same point. 3. Shew by diagram that a (b + c} = ab + ac. To divide a given straight line into two parts so...and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Give the full construction. 4. Define a decimal fraction. Prove the rule for pointing... | |
 | Archibald Montgomerie - Algebra - 1857 - 116 pages
...of sheep, and the price of each. Ans. 100 at 30s. (25.) Divide a given line a, into two such parts that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square of the other. , 3+ ^'5 , 3— 4/5 Ans. a — ^— , and a — ~— . (26.)... | |
 | Euclides - 1858 - 248 pages
...exercises for the learner. " — LARDNEB'S Euclid, pp. 79 and 80. PROP. 11. — PROB. To divide a given line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained...and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. SOL. — 46. I. To describe a square on a given line. 10. I. To bisect a given finite... | |
 | Euclides - 1858 - 136 pages
...ijivru. ihr .«'iķe». o;' the reetnnt/lii e,m be found. BOOK II. 105 PRоP. XI. PRоB. To divide a line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained...and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. SoL. 46. I, 10. I, 3. I. Pat i. 2. DEM. 6. II, 47. I, Ax. 3. 1, Dei. 8U. 1. E».... | |
 | War office - 1858 - 578 pages
...contained by the parts. If the line be bisected, what do the rectangles contained by the parts become ? 4. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole line and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. NATURAL SCIENCES. By MAJOR-GEN.... | |
 | Sandhurst roy. military coll - 1859 - 672 pages
...extremities of equal and parallel straight lines toward the same parts are themselves equal. 3. To divide a straight line into two parts so that the rectangle...parts shall be equal to the square on the other part. 4. In a circle the angle in a semicircle is a right angle. Voluntary Portion. 2. To draw a straight... | |
 | Education - 1859 - 414 pages
...square of the line between the points of section, is equal to the square of half the line. 10. Divide a straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle...and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. JULIUS CAESAR. 1. Write a short account of the author of the play Julius Ceesar.... | |
 | Royal college of surgeons of England - 1860 - 332 pages
...the rectangle contained by the whole and that part, together with the square of the other part. 7. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so...and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. 8. Draw a line DE, parallel to the base BC of a triangle ABC, so that DE is equal... | |
 | Robert Potts - Geometry, Plane - 1860 - 380 pages
...AD, DB are double of the squares on AC, CD. "Wherefore, if a straight line, &e. QED * PROPOSITION XI. PROBLEM. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle eontained by the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square on the other part. Let AB... | |
 | Philip Kelland - Algebra - 1860 - 308 pages
...together. Eequired their rates of running. 19. To divide a line 12 inches long into two such parts that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square of the other part. (Euclid, 2, 11). 20. To divide a given line (a) into... | |
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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. 
