153--A CUTTING-OUT PUZZLE.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

Here is a little cutting-out poser. I take a strip of paper, measuring five inches by one inch, and, by cutting it into five pieces, the parts fit together and form a square, as shown in the illustration. Now, it is quite an interesting puzzle to discover how we can do this in only four pieces.

[Illustration]

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