| Etienne Bézout - 1824 - 238 pages
...castle? Ans. 75 yards. • NOTE. This diagram is called a right angled triangle ; and the square of the hypothenuse, or longest side., is equal to the sum of the squares of = the two other sides. Now if the sqna's root of the sum of the squares of the height of... | |
| Daniel Parker - 1828 - 358 pages
...Greater 49 9 - 32J 63)189 161 189 16 PROB. XII. — " In every right angled triangle, the square of the hypothenuse (or longest side) is equal to the sum of the squares of the two legs :" or the square root of the hypothe» tiuse is equal to the square root of... | |
| Thomas Perronet Thompson - 1833 - 168 pages
...demonstrated. PROPOSITION XLVIII. THEOREM. — If the square described on one of the sides of a triangle, be equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides of it; the angle made by those two sides is a right angle. Let ABC be a triangle, which is such that... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - 1838 - 372 pages
...PROPOSITION XI. THEOREM. The square described on the hypothenuse of a right angled triangle is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. • Let the triangle ABC be right angled at A. Having described squares on the three sides, let fall... | |
| Charles Davies - 1840 - 262 pages
...degrees, and 4=90 degrees. 10. In every right angled triangle, the square described on the hypothenuse, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Thus, if ABC be a right angled triangle, right angled at C, then will the square D described on AB be equal... | |
| Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1847 - 554 pages
...it makes the alternate angles equal. 2. If the square described on one of the sides of a triangle be equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides, these sides contain a right angle. 3. Divide a given line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained... | |
| Nicholas Tillinghast - 1844 - 110 pages
...PROP. VII. THEOREM. The square described on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Let the triangle be Fig. 64. KDI, right angled at I. Describe squares on KD, KI, DI ; then we have... | |
| James Bates Thomson - 1844 - 268 pages
...BC^AB'-f-AC". Therefore, The square described on the hypolhcnuse of a right-angled triangle, is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Cor. 1. Hence, by transposition, the square of one of the sides of a right-angled triangle is equivalent... | |
| Charles Davies - 1846 - 254 pages
...right-angled triangle equal to ? In every right-angled triangle, the square described on the hypothenuse, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Thus, if ABC be a rightangled triangle, right-angled at C, then will the square D, described on AB, be equal... | |
| James Bates Thomson - 1846 - 354 pages
...principle in geometry, that the square described on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. (Leg. IV. 11. Euc. I. 47.) Thus if the base of the triangle ABC is 4 feet, and the perpendicular 3... | |
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