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Edward Atkins. PREFACE . THE special object of the present work is to meet the requirements of the Science and Art Department's Examina- tions in the first three stages of Pure Mathematics as set down in the Syllabus of the Science ...
Edward Atkins. PREFACE . THE special object of the present work is to meet the requirements of the Science and Art Department's Examina- tions in the first three stages of Pure Mathematics as set down in the Syllabus of the Science ...
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... meet three others with whom they continue their tour , and they spend while together £ 21 . 1s . 8d . , at the same rate per day . Required how long they were in company . 6. If 16 men and 10 boys do a piece of work in 10 days , in how ...
... meet three others with whom they continue their tour , and they spend while together £ 21 . 1s . 8d . , at the same rate per day . Required how long they were in company . 6. If 16 men and 10 boys do a piece of work in 10 days , in how ...
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... meet it on the previous Saturday . Ex . 1. - Find the difference between the true discount and the banker's discount on £ 306 due 4 months hence at 6 per cent . Now , £ 100 would in 4 months gain of £ 6 , or £ 2 . Hence , the true ...
... meet it on the previous Saturday . Ex . 1. - Find the difference between the true discount and the banker's discount on £ 306 due 4 months hence at 6 per cent . Now , £ 100 would in 4 months gain of £ 6 , or £ 2 . Hence , the true ...
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... meet with under the head of Esti- mates . It is usual , in ordinary transactions , to use certain abbreviations ; as cub . for cubic measure , sup . for superficial measure , run . for running or lineal measure . Builders , too , are in ...
... meet with under the head of Esti- mates . It is usual , in ordinary transactions , to use certain abbreviations ; as cub . for cubic measure , sup . for superficial measure , run . for running or lineal measure . Builders , too , are in ...
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... meet together , but are not in the same direction . 9. A plane rectilineal angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another , which meet together , but are not in the same straight line . NOTE . - When several angles are at ...
... meet together , but are not in the same direction . 9. A plane rectilineal angle is the inclination of two straight lines to one another , which meet together , but are not in the same straight line . NOTE . - When several angles are at ...
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Page 116 - Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. QED PROPOSITION XXVIII. THEOREM. If a straight line falling upon two other straight lines, make the exterior angle equal to...
Page 103 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Page 113 - 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. either the sides adjacent to the equal...
Page 88 - 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.
Page 273 - The opposite angles of any quadrilateral figure inscribed in a circle, are together equal to two right angles.
Page 94 - J which the equal sides are opposite, shall be equal, each to each, viz. the angle ABC to the angle DEF, and the angle ACB to DFE.
Page 271 - 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 91 - If a straight line meets two straight lines, so as to " make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken " together less than two right angles...
Page 112 - IMS the greater base shall be greater t/uin the angle contained by the sides equal to them of the other. Let ABC, DEF, be two triangles, which have The two sides AB, AC...
Page 128 - To a given straight line to apply a parallelogram, which shall be equal to a given triangle, and have one of its angles equal to a given rectilineal angle.