 | Saskatchewan. Department of Education - Education - 1910
...is three times the square on the shorter. 4. (a) 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 on the other part. II. 11. (6) Divide a given straight line externally in... | |
 | Brian Lasater - History - 2008 - 600 pages
...which is a variation on (a + b)(a - b) = a2 -- b2. Theorem 7 (II, 11) To cut a given straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts is equal to the square of the other. Let the given line be AB. The problem is to find a point H on... | |
 | Oxford univ, exam. papers, 2nd publ. exam - 1884
...between the same parallels, are equal to one another. 9. 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 on the other part. 10. In a circle the angle in a semicircle is a right... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1853
...a line gin in position an equilateral triangle. 3. Divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square « the other part. In the figure, if H be the point of division of the... | |
 | Cowley Oxon, dioc. school - 1860
...square of the line between the points of section. 6. To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts ehall be equal to the square of the other part. 7. To draw a straight line from a given point, either... | |
 | Education Department - 1879
...proposition and state it algebraically. SECTION III. 1. To divide a given straight line into two parts so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square on the other part. If the straight line AB be divided in C so that the... | |
 | Euclid
...The construction of this triangle depends upon u. n, or the problem of dividing a straight line so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts is equal to the square on the other part. This problem of course appears again in Eucl. vi. 30 as the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1853
...proposition included in any more general one? (2.) To divide a given straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. Can this be solved arithmetically.? If so, find approximately... | |
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AB be the given straight line ; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part. 
