 | John Bonnycastle - 1818 - 326 sider
...It is required to divide a line, of 20 inches in length, into two such jiarts that the rectangle of the whole and one of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other. Ans. lOv/6-10 5. It is required to divide the number 60 into two such parts, that their... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 800 sider
...made up of the half and the part produced. Prop. XI. Prob. To divide a given straight lint into tu'o parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal tu the fquare of the other part. Prop. XII. Theor. In obtuse angled triangles, if a perpendicular be... | |
 | John Playfair - 1819 - 350 sider
...+DB3=2AC3+2CD3. Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. Q, ED . . PROP. XI. PROB. 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 of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to... | |
 | Miles Bland - 1819 - 442 sider
...equal to a given square, and their rectangle equal to a given rectangle. 9. To divide a straight line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square of a given line, which is less than the line to be divided. 10. To divide... | |
 | Miles Bland - 1819 - 444 sider
...DB are equal to the square of AB, ie to the given square. (9.) To divide a straight line into ttvo parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and one of the parts may be equal to the square of a given line, which is less than the line to be divided. L,etAB be the... | |
 | John Playfair - 1819 - 354 sider
...AD3+DB==2AC3+2CD3. Wherefore, if a straight line, &c. Q, ED PROP. XI, PROB. To divide a given straight line into too parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, niay be equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to... | |
 | Daniel Cresswell - 1819 - 486 sider
...manifest from this proposition, and from E. 1O. 4., that if the semi-diameter of a circle be divided into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and the lesser part may be equal to the square of the greater part, the greater segment shall be equal... | |
 | Daniel Cresswell - 1819 - 446 sider
...contained by the other and a given straight line. Let AB and L be two given finite straight F Gr E lines : It is required to divide AB into two parts,' so that the square of the one shall be equal to the p rectangle contained by the other and by the given line L.... | |
 | Euclid, Robert Simson - 1821 - 514 sider
...equal to the square of the other part. Let AB be the given straight line: it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole and dne of the parts shall be equal to the square of the other part. Upon AB describe (46. 1.) the square... | |
 | James Ryan - 1824 - 550 sider
...sought. Ans. 1 1 , or 3] . Prob. 22. It is required to divide 20 into two such parts, that the product of the whole and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other. Ans. lOv/5— 10, and 30— lOy/5. Prob. 23. A labourer dug two trenches, one of which... | |
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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 of the other part. 
