Exercises on Euclid and in modern geometry for the use of schools, private students, and junior university students (1881)
McDowell, James L · Cambridge, Deighton, Bell, and Co. · leaf 54
32. To divide a polygon into any number of equalparts by straight lines drawn from a given point in one of its sides. Let ABC BE be the given polygon, and P the given point inone of its sides. Join P with theangular points of the polygon, thusdividing the polygon into the tri-angles 1, 2, 3,… … T G- XIT K Divide (3) FL into Irequired number of equalparts FX9 XY, YL, and complete the parallelogramsMX, XZ, &c. which areevidently each equal to oneof the equal parts into which the given polygon is to be divided. 1 — *- »- - 4 M X We see that the point of division X is on the side GH of…
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