Inventional Geometry: A Series of Problems, Intended to Familiarize the Pupil with Geometrical Conceptions, and to Exercise His Inventive Faculty |
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Can you find other three numbers , besides 3 , 4 , and 5 , such that the squares of the less two numbers shall ... Show by a figure that the area of a right - angled triangle , whose base is 4 , and perpendicular 3 , is half 4x3 ; i . e ...
Can you find other three numbers , besides 3 , 4 , and 5 , such that the squares of the less two numbers shall ... Show by a figure that the area of a right - angled triangle , whose base is 4 , and perpendicular 3 , is half 4x3 ; i . e ...
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255. Show by a figure how many square yards there are in a square pole . You know how to find the area of a rectangle , and you have changed a rectangle into a rhomboid INVENTIONAL GEOMETRY . 63.
255. Show by a figure how many square yards there are in a square pole . You know how to find the area of a rectangle , and you have changed a rectangle into a rhomboid INVENTIONAL GEOMETRY . 63.
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How would you find the area of a rhombus ? 257. Can you make a right - angled isosceles triangle equal to a square ? 258. Can you make a circle half the size of another circle ? 259. Can you make an equilateral triangle double the size ...
How would you find the area of a rhombus ? 257. Can you make a right - angled isosceles triangle equal to a square ? 258. Can you make a circle half the size of another circle ? 259. Can you make an equilateral triangle double the size ...
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Show how you would find the area of a reëntrant - angled trapezium . 294. Exhibit to the eye that 1 + 3 + 4 = 1 . 295. Place a circle about a quadrant . If to one extremity of an arc , not greater than that of a quadrant , there be ...
Show how you would find the area of a reëntrant - angled trapezium . 294. Exhibit to the eye that 1 + 3 + 4 = 1 . 295. Place a circle about a quadrant . If to one extremity of an arc , not greater than that of a quadrant , there be ...
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And as the areas of all these triangles added together would be equal to the area of the circle : To find the area of a circle — multiply the radius which is the perpendicular common to all these imaginary triangles , by the ...
And as the areas of all these triangles added together would be equal to the area of the circle : To find the area of a circle — multiply the radius which is the perpendicular common to all these imaginary triangles , by the ...
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| Título | Inventional Geometry: A Series of Problems, Intended to Familiarize the Pupil with Geometrical Conceptions, and to Exercise His Inventive Faculty Science primers |
| Autor | William George Spencer |
| Editor | D. Appleton, 1877 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 15 Ago. 2007 |
| Largo | 97 páginas |
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