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The last fold will be ineffective in making squares. If you fold a square in half it becomes two rectangles - one on top of the other. This "square" (pardon me, but the site doesn't do accurate 'drawing') shows the folding process. |--------------------------------| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |........................................| |--------------------------------| when folded back, becomes |----------------| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |----------------| and when that is folded upwards, it becomes four squares |----------------| |....................| |....................| |....................| |....................| |----------------| The third fold makes eight rectangles.... |--------| |..........| |..........| |..........| |..........| |--------| And the fourth fold makes sixteen squares... |--------| |..........| |..........| |--------| Another fold - a fifth - would bring us back to rectangles again. There would be 32 of them. |----| |.....| |.....| |----|
U turn a square into four squares by making a plus sign
No. Although squares are always rectangles, rectangles are not always squares. A square has four sides of equal length and four right angles. Rectangles must only have four right angles.
5 squares. One 2 by 2 square and four 1 by 1 squares.
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