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Page 169 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz.
Page 22 - If 4 men can do a piece of work in 20 days, how long will it take 5 men to do a similar piece of work ? 2.
Page 170 - All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.
Page 172 - If a straight line be divided into any two parts, the squares of the whole line, and of one of the parts, are equal to twice the rectangle contained by the whole and that part, together with the square of the other part. Let the straight line AB be divided into any two parts in the point C ; the squares of AB, BC are equal to twice the rectangle AB, BC, together with the square of AC.
Page 170 - To describe a parallelogram equal to a given triangle, and having an angle equal to a given angle.
Page 169 - Upon the same base, and on the same side of it, there cannot be two triangles that have their sides which are terminated in one extremity of' the base, equal to one another, and likewise those which are terminated in the other extremity.
Page 92 - A laborer agreed to serve for 36 days on condition that for every day he worked he should receive $1.25, and for every day he was absent he should forfeit 50 cents.

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