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Subj: Cutting A Picture In Half #1 (S396)
From: My thirty-five years of teaching math

Cut the shape into two equal parts with one cut.

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Subj:     Cutting A Picture In Half #2 (S397)
          From: My thirty-five years of teaching math

Cut the shape into two equal parts with one cut.

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Subj:     Cutting A Picture In Half #3 (S398)
          From: My thirty-five years of teaching math

Cut the shape into two equal parts with one cut.

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Subj:     Cutting A Picture In Half #4 (S399)
          From: My thirty-five years of teaching math

Cut the shape into two equal parts with one cut.

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Subj:     Cutting A Picture In Half #5 (S400)
          From: My thirty-five years of teaching math

Cut the shape into two equal parts with one cut.

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Subj:     Cutting A Picture In Half #6 (S401)
          From: My thirty-five years of teaching math

Cut the shape into two equal parts with one cut.

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Subj:     Cutting A Picture In Half #7 (S402)
          From: My thirty-five years of teaching math

Cut the shape into two equal parts with one cut.

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Subj:     Cutting A Picture In Half #8 (S403)
          From: My thirty-five years of teaching math

Cut the shape into two equal parts with one cut.

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Subj:     Cutting A Picture In Half #9 (S404)
          From: My thirty-five years of teaching math

Cut the shape into two equal parts with one cut.

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Subj:     Cutting A Carpet In Half #10 (S438b)
          From: LABLaughsRiddles on 6/15/2005
Source: http://www.lablaughs.com/clean_toon.php?id=C20000713
     and http://www.lablaughs.com/clean_toon.php?id=C20000714

A carpet of size 10 by 10 meters should be placed in a room
of size 12 by 9 meters. In the center of the room, there is
an aquarium of size 8 by 1 meters (see the figure below).
The carpet should be cut into no more than two pieces (i.e.
one cut in total).

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Subj:     Cutting A Picture Into Two Sections #11 (S457b)
          From: Brain Teasers - Geometry Puzzles on 10/24/2005
Source: http://hlavolamy.szm.sk/brainteasers/geometry-puzzles.htm

Slice the picture into two sections from which you could make a
rectangle 6x4 squares.

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Subj:     Divide Into Four Equal Pieces #12 (S463)
          by Henry E. Dudeney
          From: Puzzles.com
Source: http://www.puzzles.com/PuzzlePlayground
      /EasyDissection/EasyDissectionPuzzlePrintPlay.pdf

The goal of this puzzle is to divide the figure into four
pieces which would be identical in shape and size, though
some pieces can be the mirror reflections of others.

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Subj:     Divide Into Four Equal Pieces #13 to #16 (S505)
          The Ultimate Puzzle Site on 9/23/2006
Source: http://www.puzzle.dse.nl/basic/index.html

The goal of this puzzle is to divide these four figures into
four pieces which would be identical in shape and size, though
some pieces can be the mirror reflections of others.
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There are two ways in which this can be done. Which are these two ways?
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There are two ways in which this can be done. Which are these two ways?
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The shape shown below must be partitioned into three identical pieces.
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Subj:     The Goose Puzzle (S583)
          Drawing from the book
               "More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd"
               Edited by Martin Gardner
               From: Dover Publications in 1960

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