Key to Geometry’ Circles By Newton Hawley and Patrick Suppes Revised by George Gearhart and Peter Rasmussen Nane classKEY TO GEOMETRY Book 2: Circles TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 Drawing Circles The Center of a Circle The Radius of a Circle Intersecting Circles pennnon Comparing Segments .......- Circles with the Same Segment as Radius . Drawing a Segment Congruent to a Given Segment . Drawing a Circle with Radius Congruent to a Given Circle Ares egpeeeoheiebepnca-ee rc eccece The Radius of an Arc - nee beeen Comparing Segments . Equilateral Triangles . Intersecting Circles and Triangles Constructing an Equilateral Triangle Constructing Hexagons ............24. Review ...... 665450500 Practice Test TO THE STUDENT: These books will help you fo discover for yourself many important relationships of geometry. Your tools wil be the sane as those used by the Greek mathematicians more than 2000 years ago. These tools are a compass and a straightedge. in cdcition, you wil need a sharpened pencil. The lessons that follow will help you make drawings from which you May learn the most, The answer books show one way the pages may be compieted correctly Its possible that your work is correct even though itis different. f your cnswer ciffers, '@-read the instructions to make sure You followed them step by step if you did, you are probably correct, In many societies the study of geometry began os the at of mea. suring and surveying land. Crinese geometry began this Woy. An. lent Chineve geometers searched for ways 10 ensly subdive fas Info rectangular plots. They found that rectangular plots could be Created By combining righ! tangles, The Chou Pe ie cidest known Chinese mathematics tex, begins wilh o ciscussicn ofthe properties ‘light inangles, Te exact age of Ine Chou Pel not cerfoin but is atleast 2000 years ol. ‘On the cover ot this booklet an ancient Chinese mathematicion Works on a Ba96 of he ChouPS. The llustotion represents a proot {2p important iheorem aBouT Aight triangles, Altholigh the theorem has een named after the Greek mathemalicion Pythagoras, Che ese gecmeters were familor with the theorem ond is proof cen ties Before the birth of Pyinagoras, Copyright © 1878, 1972 by Holden Oay, ne. All ighis reserved Key o Fractions, Kay to Decimals, Key to Percents, Key to Algebra, Key to Gecmaty, Key to Messureient, and ey to Metric Measurement are regstoras radomarks of Key Curiculum Press, Pubishod by Key Curriculum Press, 1150 6Stn Steet, Emoryvile, CA 94608 Pented inthe Unted States of america 30.29 28 27 26 25 2423.22 a2 01 00 9 ISBN o.13884-72-4Drawing Circles Use your compass to make some figures like these.