Queen's scholarship examination. Amner's eight years' scholarship questions ... in Euclid, algebra, & mensuration1879 |
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... meets a passenger train travelling in the opposite direction , which arrives at the original starting station 16 hours after the goods train left . At what rate is the passenger train following ? Let x = rate passenger train is ...
... meets a passenger train travelling in the opposite direction , which arrives at the original starting station 16 hours after the goods train left . At what rate is the passenger train following ? Let x = rate passenger train is ...
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... meet in one point . Let ABCD be a quadrilateral inscribed in the circle . Bisect the sides in E , F , G , and H respectively ( I. 10 ) . At E and F raise perpendiculars meeting in O ( I. 11 ) . Join OG and OH . C F Then OG and OH shall ...
... meet in one point . Let ABCD be a quadrilateral inscribed in the circle . Bisect the sides in E , F , G , and H respectively ( I. 10 ) . At E and F raise perpendiculars meeting in O ( I. 11 ) . Join OG and OH . C F Then OG and OH shall ...
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... meet in a point , and this point is the centre of the circle . 3. The angles in the same segment of a circle are equal to one another . Given three points in the circumference of a circle , find a fourth . Let A , B , and C be the three ...
... meet in a point , and this point is the centre of the circle . 3. The angles in the same segment of a circle are equal to one another . Given three points in the circumference of a circle , find a fourth . Let A , B , and C be the three ...
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... following definitions are incomplete : - ' Of quadrilateral figures , a square has all its sides equal . ' ' An acute - angled triangle is that which has two acute angles . ' ' Parallel straight lines are such as do not meet 43.
... following definitions are incomplete : - ' Of quadrilateral figures , a square has all its sides equal . ' ' An acute - angled triangle is that which has two acute angles . ' ' Parallel straight lines are such as do not meet 43.
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... meet how- ever far they may be produced ; therefore the complete definition is parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane , and which , being produced ever so far both ways , do not meet . SECTION II . I. If the equal ...
... meet how- ever far they may be produced ; therefore the complete definition is parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane , and which , being produced ever so far both ways , do not meet . SECTION II . I. If the equal ...
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Page 64 - If a straight line touch a circle, and from the point of contact a straight line be drawn cutting the circle, the angles which this line makes with the line touching the circle shall be equal to the angles which are in the alternate segments of the circle.
Page 80 - To make a triangle of which the sides shall be equal to three given straight lines, but any two whatever of these must be greater than the third (20.
Page 60 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such, that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another : 16. And this point is called the centre of the circle.
Page 48 - ... the sides containing the obtuse angle, by twice the rectangle contained by the side upon which, when produced, the perpendicular falls, and the straight line intercepted without the triangle between the perpendicular and the obtuse...
Page 82 - If, at a point in a straight line, two other straight lines, upon the opposite sides of it, make the adjacent angles together equal to two right angles, these two straight lines shall be in one and the same straight line.
Page 60 - IF two straight lines cut one another, the vertical, or opposite, angles shall be equal.
Page 45 - Straight lines which are parallel to the same straight line are parallel to one another. Triangles and Rectilinear Figures. The sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles.
Page 32 - If a straight line be divided into two equal parts, and also into two unequal parts ; the rectangle contained by the unequal parts, together with the square on the line between the points of section, is equal to the square on half the line.
Page 13 - If two angles of a triangle be equal to one another, the sides also which subtend, or are opposite to, the equal angles, shall be equal to one another.
Page 30 - 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.