Ex. 27. Shew that any point in the bisector of an angle is equidistant from the arms of the angle.

THEOR. 20. If two triangles have two sides of the one equal to two sides of the other, each to each, and have likewise the angles opposite to one pair of equal sides qual, then the angles opposite to the other pair of equal sides are either equal or supplementary, and in the former case the triangles are identically

equal.

Let ABC, DEF be two triangles having the side AB equal to the side DE, the side AC to the side DF, and the angle ABC to the angle DEF :

then shall the angles ACB, DFE be either equal or supplementary, and, in the former case, the triangles shall be identically equal.

Apply the triangle ABC to the triangle DEF, so that A may fall on D, and AB along DE, and the point C on the same side of DE as the point F,

then B will fall on E,

since AB is equal to DE,

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and BC will fall along EF,

since the angle ABC is equal to the angle DEF,

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therefore C will fall on F, or in EF or EF produced. If C falls on F,

the triangles coincide,

and therefore are identically equal.

If C falls in EF, or EF produced, as at G,

then because DG is equal to DF,

therefore the angle DFG is equal to the angle DGF, therefore the angles DGE, DFE are supplementary, that is, the angles ACB, DFE are supplementary.

COR. Two such triangles are identically equal

Def. 30.

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I. 2.

Q.E.D.

(1) If the two angles given equal are right angles or obtuse angles.

(2) If the angles opposite to the other two equal sides are both acute, or both obtuse, or if one of them is a right angle.

(3) If the side opposite the given angle in each triangle is not less than the other given side.

Ex. 28. The point O is equidistant from the arms of the angle BAC, shew that OA bisects the angle BAC.

EXERCISES.

29. If two quadrilaterals have three sides of the one equal respectively to three sides of the other taken in order, and have likewise the angles contained by those sides equal to one another, each to each, they are equal in all respects.

30. Two isosceles triangles are on the same base; shew that the straight line through their vertices bisects the base at right angles.

31. In the equal sides AB, AC of an isosceles triangle ABC points D and E are taken such that AD is equal to AE, if BE and CD intersect at F, shew that the triangles BFC, DFE are isosceles.

*32. The three straight lines bisecting the sides of a triangle at right angles meet in a point which is equidistant from the vertices of the triangle.

*33. The bisectors of the angles of a triangle meet in a point which is equidistant from the sides of the triangle.

*34. The bisectors of an angle of a triangle and of the exterior angles adjacent to the other two angles meet in a point which is equidistant from the sides of the triangle.

*35. The bisectors of the angles of the triangle ABC meet in O, and OF is drawn perpendicular to AB: shew that AF is equal to the difference between the semi-perimeter of the triangle and the side BC. If OD is perpendicular to BC, find similar values of BD and CD.

*36. The bisector of the angle A of the triangle ABC and of the exterior angles at B and C meet in O, and OD, OE, OF are drawn perpendicular to BC, CA and AB produced when necessary shew that AE and AF are each equal to the semi-perimeter of the triangle. Find values of BD and CD in terms of the semi-perimeter and the sides.

37. Prove that the perimeter of a triangle is greater than the sum of the straight lines drawn from the vertices to the middle points of the opposite sides.

38. If ABC is a triangle having the side AB less than the

side AC, and the bisector of the angle BAC meet BC at D: shew that BD is less than CD.

39. If ABC is a triangle having the side AB less than the side

AC: shew that the bisector of the angle BAC lies between AB and the straight line drawn from A to the middle point of BC.

*40. Two points, A and B, lie on the same side of the straight line CD; P is a point in CD, such that AP and BP make equal angles with CD; Q is any other point in CD: shew that the sum of AP and BP is less than the sum of AQ and BQ.

SECTION III.

PARALLELS AND PARALLELOGRAMS.

DEF. 33. Parallel straight lines are such as are in the same plane and being produced to any length both ways do not meet.

DEF. 34. When a straight line intersects two other straight lines it makes with them eight angles, which have received special names in relation to the lines or to one another.

2/1

3/4

6/5 8

Thus in the figure 1, 2, 7, 8 are called exterior angles, and 3, 4, 5, 6 interior angles; again 4 and 6, 3

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and 5, are called alternate angles; lastly, I and 5, 2 and 6, 3 and 7, 4 and 8, are called corresponding angles.

THEOR. 21. If a straight line intersects two other straight lines and makes the alternate angles equal, the straight lines are parallel.

Let the straight line EH intersect the straight lines AB, CD at F and G so as to make the angle AFG equal to the alternate angle FGD:

F

E

C

D

then shall AB and CD be parallel.

For if AB and CD are not parallel,

they will meet if produced far enough either towards B and D or towards A and C.

Suppose them to meet at a point K;

then, of the two angles AFG and FGD, the one is an exterior,

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and the other an interior opposite angle, of the triangle FGK; therefore the angle AFG is not equal to the angle FGD, but by hypothesis the angle AFG is equal to the angle FGD, hence the angles AFG and FGD are both equal and unequal, which is absurd;