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Assignment # 1

1. TRUE or FALSE. Write TRUE if the statement is true and FALSE if it is false.

_______________ a) High school geometry owes more to the ancient Egyptians than to the ancient
Greeks.
_______________ b) Euclid used the word postulate for an assumption confined to one particular
subject.
_______________ c) The deduction theorem is used because a conclusion, not an implication, is to be
proved.
_______________ d) Analytic geometry was invented before the development of finite geometries.

_______________ e) The latter part of the nineteenth century witnessed a revival of interest in the
classical geometry of the circle and the triangle.
_______________ f) Traditional college geometry of a quarter of a century ago included the study of
more different geometries than are included today.

2. Verify that the Pythagorean theorem, a2 + b2 = c2, holds for the sides of the triangle in the figure
below.

3. How many knots in the rope would be necessary to produce a triangle with shorter sides measuring 5
and 12 units?

4. Draw a figure to explain the wording of Euclid’s fifth postulate.