Geometry
A Self-Teaching Guide
Chapter One
The Basics
Chapter 1 reviews some of the basic concepts of geometry. When you've completed
this chapter, you should be able to work with the following concepts:
points and lines
angles
polygons
At the beginning of each chapter we'll give you a pretest. If you get a perfect score
on a pretest without peeking at the answers that follow, it's probably all right to
skip that chapter. Before we begin chapter 1, try the following pretest to get an
idea of how much review you need, if any. If you get a perfect score on the
pretest, you may skip chapter 1 and go directly to chapter 2.
PRETEST
1. Find the distance between the following sets of points.
a. (1,9) and (3,7) b. (-2,6) and (6,-2)
2. Find the midpoint of both line segments in the previous problem.
3. List all the line segments for the following line.
4. List all the rays of the following illustration.
5. Use a ... read full excerpt from Geometry: A Self-Teaching Guide ebook
