A complete and practical solution book for the common school teacher (1899)
Fairchild, J[ohn] T[heodore] [from old catalog] · Crawfis College, Ohio, The author · leaf 175
tance the board must be cut from thelarge end. 160 FAIRCHILDS SOLUTION BOOK. PROBLEM 340. The sides of a triangular field are 39, 40 and 50 rd.: from whatpoint in one of the shorter sides must a line be drawn parallel with theother shorter side, so as to divide the field into two equal parts? (i)… … FIG. 34. EK=28.284 rd., length of the line that divides the tri-angle into equal parts; and it is parallel to AB, and AB=40 rd. Also, draw TP parallel to CB, whose side is 30 rd. .\ 600 : 300 :: 302 : CB2, from which CB=21.213 rd. .-. TP=21.213 rd., dividing the field into equal parts par-allel to…
Arithmetic · Geometry
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