 | Charles Hutton - 1788 - 728 σελίδες
...breadth. But the area is equal to the number of fquares or fuperficial meafuring units ; and therefore the area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its length and breadth. Again, a rectangle is equal to an oblique parallelogram of an equal length and... | |
 | Euclid, Dionysius Lardner - 1828 - 542 σελίδες
...magnitudes, and subtract half the difference from half the sum, and the remainder is the less. (262) Since the area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its sides, it follows that if the area be divided by one Me the quote will be the other side. It is scarcely... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1840 - 262 σελίδες
...the unit of the number which expresses the area, is a square of which the linear unit is the side. 8. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. If the base of a rectangle is 30 yards, and the altitude 5 yards, the area will... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1846 - 254 σελίδες
...It is a square, of which the linear unit is the side. 10. How do you find the area of a rectangle ? The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. If the base of a rectangle is 30 yards, and the altitude 5 yards, the area will... | |
 | Charles Davies, William Guy Peck - 1855 - 628 σελίδες
...bases : generally, any two rectangles are to each other as the product of their bases and altitudes. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its liase and altitude. The area of a rectangle is also equal to the product of its diagonals multiplied... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1863 - 464 σελίδες
...the rectangle AEGF will be the superficial unit, and we shall have, AB x AD ABCD = AB x AD : hence, the area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude ; that is, the number of superficial units in the rectangle, is equal to the product of the number... | |
 | Evan Wilhelm Evans - 1862 - 116 σελίδες
...VII) ; that is, the two diagonals bisect each other in E. Therefore, the diagonals, etc. THEOREM XVI. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base by its altitude. Let ABCD be a rectangle. It is to be proved that its area is equal to the product... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1867 - 186 σελίδες
...which it is very important to consider and understand. Suppose the quantities to be so connected with each other, that when the first is increased according...and altitude. Then, in the rectangle ABCD, we have Area=AB x BO. Take a second rectangle EFGII, having a longer base EF, and a less altitude FG, but such... | |
 | Edward Brooks - 1868 - 284 σελίδες
...other. It is one of the most interesting and practical books of Geometry. AREA OF POLYGONS. THEOREM I. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. Let ABCD be a rectangle; then will its area be equal to the product of its base and altitude. For,... | |
 | William Chauvenet - 1871 - 380 σελίδες
...represent them when they are measured by the linear unit (III. 8). PROPOSITION III.— THEOREM. 7. The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. Let R be any rectangle, If its base and h its altitude numerically expressed in terms of the linear... | |
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The area of a rectangle is equal to the product of its base and altitude. 
