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The Farmers' Field Boundary
Age 11 to 14
Challenge Level 
Can you find other triangles (with the red line as their base) that have the same area as the triangular part of the field on the right?
Are there any parallel lines we can draw that might help?
What do we know about triangles with the same base and the same perpendicular height?
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