 | Robert Potts - 1865 - 528 pages
...angles proportionals, they are similar to one another. In the same manner a rectilineal figure of six sides may be described upon a given straight line similar to one given, and so on. QEF PROPOSITION XIX. THEOREM. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their... | |
 | McGill University - 1865 - 332 pages
...proportion, and show that it agrees with Euclid's. 9. Find a third proportional to two given lines. 10. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 11. If 3 men can mow 7 acres of grass in 5 days of 9 hours each, in how many days of 8 hours each will... | |
 | Thomas Baker (Civil engineer) - 1865 - 278 pages
...then, the triangle ABC is to the triangle AED as the square of AB is to I lie. square of AE : that is, similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. (Euc. VI. 19.) THEOREM VIII. All similar figures are to one another as the squares of their homologous,... | |
 | Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1865 - 174 pages
...greatest angle : theorem, 17 ; any two angles being Rven, the, becomes known : theorem, ' ; similar, are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides: theorem, 17. Triangular prism, definition of, 52. Triangular fields, method of surveying with chain... | |
 | James Robert Christie - Mathematics - 1866 - 428 pages
...together with the segmenta of the former will be equal to the square of the radius of the circle. i 3. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 4. If two straight lines be at right angles to the same plane, they shall be parallel to one another.... | |
 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1867 - 424 pages
...qf similar triangles, having the same ratio to one another that the polygons have; and the polygons are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. Let ABCDE, FGHKL be similar polygons, and let AB be the side homologous to the side FG : the polygons ABCDE,... | |
 | Euclid, Isaac Todhunter - Euclid's Elements - 1867 - 426 pages
...; and it has already been shewn for triangles ; therefore universally, similar rectilineal figures are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. COROLLARY 2. If to AB and FG, two of the homologous sides, a third proportional M be taken, [VI. 11.... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1868 - 434 pages
...angles proportionals, they are similar to one another. In the same manner a rectilineal figure of six sides may be described upon a given straight line similar to one given, and so on. QEF PROPOSITION XIX. THEOREM. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their... | |
 | Schools inquiry commission - Education - 1868 - 532 pages
...inscribed in a circle is equal to the interior and opposite. 7. Describe a circle about a given square. 8. Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. XIX. (Two hours.) Maximum. 1. Translate into French : — Two worthy peasants went together to find... | |
 | How - 1868 - 296 pages
...English, Latin, and Greek tongues, and understood (what few lads of my age then understood) , that ' similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides." In a word, then, I was something of a scholar, and I may well be forgiven if I were a little proud... | |
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SIMILAR triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides. 
