Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/111 - The Victoria Cross

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 * The Victoria Cross
 * We have shown elsewhere how innumerable puzzles may be devised on the Greek, St. George, or Red Cross, so familiar to all,
 * composed as it is of five equal squares assembled together.
 * Let us now do homage to the Maltese or Victoria Cross.


 * Cut the cross shown into seven pieces that will fit together and form a perfect square.
 * Of course, there must be no trickery or waste of material.


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 * In order that the reader may have no doubt as to the exact proportions of the cross as given, I have inserted the dotted lines.
 * As the pieces $A$ and $B$ will fit together to form one of those little squares,
 * it is clear that the area of the cross is equal to seventeen such squares.