Longmans' School Mensuration: With an Additional Chapter and Exercises

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Longmans, Green and Company, 1897 - 182 pages
 

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Page 111 - A sphere is a solid bounded by a curved surface, every point of which is equally distant from a point within called the center.
Page 161 - Multiply the sum of the two parallel sides by the perpendicular distance between them, and half the product will be the area.
Page 96 - RULE. To the sum of the areas of the two ends add the square root of their product ; multiply this sum by the perpendicular height, and \ of the product is the solid content.
Page 53 - From eight times the chord of half the arc, subtract the chord of the whole arc, and divide the remainder by 3, and the quotient will be the length of the arc, nearly.
Page 44 - A circle is a plane figure bounded by one line called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference are equal to one another.
Page 6 - A right-angled triangle is one which has a right angle. The side opposite the right angle is called the hypothenuse.
Page 76 - What is the length of the edge of a cubical cistern which contains as much as a rectangular one whose edges are 154 ft. 11 in., 70 ft. 7 in., and 53 ft. 1 in.

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