You can make three squares
No because a trapezoid has 4 sides and a triangle has three if a trapezoid had three then it would be a triangle. If you had 3 trapezoids you could make a triangle!
Trapezoid.
Three triangles could make a trapezoid that looks like this. ---------------- ( ) ( ) ( ) --------------------------
triangle
To make a triangle, cut it on its diagonal and put two opposite legs together. you cannot make a trapezoid without two squares, where you do the same thing as the triangle but put the second square in between.
Make it into three triangles.
quadrilateral
three
Three triangles.
3 squares: 36 + 4 + 1 2 squares: 25 + 16
a weird trapezoid