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BOOK I. PROP. XLI. THEOR.
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F a parallelogram and a triangle are upon the same base and between the same parallels and, the parallelogram is double the triangle.
Draw 
the diagonal;
Then = (pr. 37.)
= twice (pr. 34.)
∴ = twice .
Q. E. D.
