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Divide the trapezium into two parts such that they can be reassembled to make a triangle.

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In a square ABHI two smaller squares are drawn: ACFG with area 16 and BCED with area 4. Find the area of hexagon DEFGIH.

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Each of the small squares has an area of 1. What is the area of the triangle?

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Divide the parallelogram into two parts such that they can be reassembled to make a triangle.

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Charlie drew a triangle. Show a method of cutting this triangle into three parts which can then be reassembled into a rectangle - which works no matter what triangle he drew.

On the diagram each number denotes the area of a rectangle it is written into. What are the areas of the other rectangles?

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Show how to divide any quadrilateral into 5 polygons of equal area.

Line AB is parallel to line CD and line AD is parallel to line BE. Show that triangles ADE and ABC have equal areas.

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A quadrilateral ABCD is given. Points K and L belong to the side AB and AK=KL=LB and points N and M belong to the side CD and CM=MN=ND. Show that the area of the quadrilateral KLMN is 13 of the area of the quadrilateral ABCD.

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