Key to Geometry’ Perpendiculars By Newton Hawley and Patrick Suppes Revised by George Gearhart and Peter RasmussenKEY TO GEOMETRY Book 4: Perpendiculars TABLE OF CONTENTS ‘Comparing Segments Comparing Angles The Angles of a Triangle. Bisecting Angles. .... Right Angles Perpendicular ines. Review ..... The Bisector of asegment..... The Perpendicular Bisector of a Segment Review . ‘Constructing the | Perpendicular to ° sLine | Review... . . Practice Test . TO THE STUDENT: These books will help you to clscover for yourself many impectant relationships of geometry. Your tools wil be the same as those Used by the Greek mathematicians more than 2000 years ago, These tools o*© c Compass and a straightedge. in adaition, you will need a sharpened pencil. The lessons that folow wil help you make drawings trom which you may learn the most. ‘The answer books show one way the Pages may be completed correctly tis possible that your work is correct even though itis different. f your cnswer differs, re-read the Instructions to make sure you followed them step by step. i you did, you are probably correct. Pythagoras woe the loader of « secre! socialy in ancient Greece. ‘he soGety wos devoted to he shidy of musie astronomy, athmmole ‘and geometry. Pyihagoras and Ns folowers beled thot numbers ‘were magical and thal ne secrels of he universe could be unlocked 1 studying the relotonsnios between numbers. an mportont Meo rer fi geometry 6 nomad afer Pythagoras The "Pyihagorecn Thes- tem staes ha! ina righ ante, he sum ote squares on he sort sldes equa the square on he long de. ‘on the cover of his Booka! Pyinagoras speaks before a meeting of ‘is sect society The pentagram, fe pot sor, wat Me ey ‘Cover an by Howard Cool, Copyright 1929, 1972 by secmety, Key Measurement, Sr B ey i Factors Key 19, Key Key Metts hieaswromentare togistrod trademarks of Key Curcuum Press, Published by Koy Curcsurs Press, ‘rye, CA 96608 12 United States of Arica 29 28 27 HE 25 26.29 22 21 02 01 00.98Comparing Segments 1. Check: Which segment is longest? ____ — Which segment is shortest? Jt 2. Check { 3. Construct a segment UV congruent to AB on the given line. A