That's a really nice puzzle.
Answer below....
The answer is because the first triangle doesn't have a straight hypotenuse. The
slither from the
shape and the perceived triangle makes up for the 1unit^2 missing area of the second
triangle.
Regards,
Warren Vick
Europa Technologies Ltd, U.K.
http://www.europa-tech.com
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