Propositions
Postulates and Common Notions
Propositions
What are you given?/What do you have to prove?
Miscellaneous
100

The given for proposition 1.

What is a straight finite line AB.

100

That all right angles are equal to one another

What is Postulate 4?

100

To place at a given point as an extremity a straight line equal to a given straight line.

What is Prop 2?

100

Prop 1 given

What is a finite straight line?

100

Please describe to me how you bisect an infinite line?

What is "You don't."

200

These are the four propositions to prove triangles are congruent to one another.

What is SAS, SSS, ASA, and AAS?

200

This common notion can be used for "substitution" in proofs, and its definition.

What is common notion 1- two things equal to the same thing are equal to one another.

200

Prop 10 lets us do this

What is bisect a given finite straight line?

200

Prop 9 to prove

What is to bisect a given rectilineal angle

200

When two lines intersect it always makes the _________ equal to one another. 

What is vertical angles.

300

This is the proposition lovingly known as "Pons Asinorum"

What is the proposition proving that in isosceles triangles the base angles are equal, as are the angles under the base.

300

A straight line falling on another straight line.

What creates two angles equal to the sum of two right angles?

300

These propositions show Side Angle Side Theorem and Side Side Side Theorem.

What are props 4 and 8?

300

You're given a triangle with two equal angles in this prop

What is prop 6?

300

What is the smallest rectilinear angle?

What is none.

400

Proposition 41

What is the proposition that proves a parallelogram is twice the area of the triangle that has the same base and height (or lies within the same parallel lines)?

400

Postulate 3

What is to describe a circle with any centre and distance?

400

These two propositions are converses of one another

What are props 5 and 6?

400

We prove this in prop 16

What is that the exterior angle of a triangle is always greater than either of the interior and opposite angles?
400

How does a "Reductio ad absurdum" argument work?

What is a an argument that is proven by producing false statements to come to the correct statement.

500

This is a Taxi Circle.

What is the sum of all points equal distant from a center point moving only at straight lines and right angles? 

500

This is the difference between Common Notions 1 and 4.

What is that CN 4 has two things that coincide, or can overlap each other, while CN1 involves identities of things- two items which are equal to another or third thing, are then equal to each other.

500

Prop 12 is the first time we formally encounter this in a proof.

What is the infinite?

500

When proving this prop, you also prove a porism. Double the points if you can state the porism.

What is prop 15? Porism: If two straight lines cut one another they will make the angles at the point of section equal to four right angles

500

What is Prop 13 proving?

What is "If a straight line set up on a straight line makes angles, it will make either two right angles or angles equal to two right angles?"

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