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the parallelogram ABCD is also similar to the parallelogram KH;
therefore
each of the parallelograms EG, HK is similar to ABCD.
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figures similar to the same rectilineal figure are also similar to one another; [VI.21]
therefore
the parallelogram EG is also similar to the parallelogram HK .
