Ex. 454. Passing through a point and touching a given circle.

Ex. 455. Touching two given circles.

Ex. 456. Touching a given circle and a given line.

253. No general method can be given for the solution of exercises; a great many, however, can be solved

(1) By a gradual putting together of the given parts.

(2) By means of an analysis.

(3) By means of loci.

MISCELLANEOUS EXERCISES

(Remark 233.)

Ex. 457. Through a given point, to draw a line cutting off equal parts on the sides of a given angle,

Ex. 458. Through a given point, to draw a line making a given angle with a given line.

Construct an isosceles triangle, having given :

Ex. 459. The base and the altitude upon an arm.

Ex. 460. The altitude upon the base and the vertical angle.

Ex. 461. The vertical angle and the sum of one arm and the base.

Ex. 462. The perimeter and the base angles.

Construct a right triangle, having given :

Ex. 463. One acute angle and the altitude upon the hypotenuse.

Ex. 464. The altitude upon the hypotenuse and one of the segments of the hypotenuse.

Ex. 465. The sum of the arms and one acute angle.

Ex. 466. To find a point in one side of a triangle which is equidistant from the other two sides.

Ex. 467. Find the locus of the vertex of a right triangle, having a given hypotenuse.

Ex. 468. From a point P, in the circumference of a circle, to draw a chord, having a given distance from the center.

Ex. 469. In a given circle, to draw a diameter having a given distance from a given point.

Ex. 470. Through a given point without a circle, to draw a secant having a given distance from the center.

Ex. 471. Through two given points in a circumference, to draw two equal parallel chords.

Ex. 472. Trisect a given straight angle.

Ex. 473. Trisect a given right angle.

Ex. 474. Through a given point, to draw a line of given length terminating in two given parallel lines.

Ex. 475. Through a given point, to draw a line making equal angles with two given lines.

* Ex. 476. To bisect an angle formed by two lines, without producing them to their intersection.

Ex. 487. The difference between the diagonal and the side.

Ex. 488. The sum of the diagonal and the side.

To construct a rectangle, having given:

Ex. 489. One side and the diagonal.

Ex. 490. The angle formed by the diagonals and one side.

Ex. 491. The perimeter and the diagonal.

To construct a rhombus, having given :

Ex. 492. The two diagonals.

Ex. 493. The perimeter and one diagonal.

To construct a parallelogram, having given:

Ex. 497. Two sides and one altitude.

Ex. 498. Two sides and an angle.

Ex. 499. One side and the two diagonals.

Ex. 500. One side, one angle, and one diagonal.

Ex. 501. The diagonals and the angle formed by the diagonals.

Ex. 504. The bases, another side, and one base angle.

Ex. 505. The bases and the diagonals.

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Ex. 506. One base, the diagonals, and the angle formed by the diagonals.

Ex. 507. To draw a common exterior tangent to two given circles.

Ex. 508. To draw a common interior tangent to two given circles.

Ex. 509. About a given circle, to circumscribe a triangle, having given the angles.

Ex. 510. Find the locus of the midpoints of the chords that pass through a given point in the circumference.

Ex. 511. Find the locus of the midpoints of the secants that pass through a given point without a circle.

Ex. 512. In a given circle, to inscribe a triangle, having given the angles.

*Ex. 513. From a given point in a circumference, to draw a chord that is bisected by a given chord.

Ex. 514. Given a point, A, between a circumference and a straight line. Through A, to draw a line terminated by the circumference and the given line, and bisected in A.

Ex. 515. Given two points, A and B, on the same side of a line, CD. To find a point, X, in CD, such that AXC = 2 BXD.

Ex. 516. The bisectors of the angles of a circumscribed quadrilateral meet in a point.

256. The first and the fourth terms of a proportion are cal the extremes, the second and the third, the means.

257. The first and the third terms are called the antecede the second and the fourth the consequents.

Thus, in the proportion, a: b c:d, a and d are the extrem b and c the means, a and c the antecedents, and b and d consequents.

258. When the means of a proportion are equal, either m is said to be the mean proportional between the first and last terms, and the last term is said to be the third proportio to the first and the second terms.

Thus, in the proportion, a: b = bc, b is the mean prop tional between a and c, and c is the third proportional to and b.

259. The last term is the fourth proportional to the first thi Thus, in the proportion, a : bc: d, d is the fourth proportio to a, b, and c.

260. A series of equal ratios is called a continued proportio

261. The two terms of a ratio must be either quantit of the same kind, or the quantities must be represented