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Squares are actually also rectangles so you could make 8 rectangles without touching any of the squares. However, if you could cut the squares, that would be a different problem....
To determine how many rectangles of different sizes can be formed from 36 identical squares, we first need to find the possible dimensions of rectangles that can be created using these squares. The total area of the rectangles must equal 36, which can be expressed as ( length \times width = 36 ). The pairs of factors of 36 are (1, 36), (2, 18), (3, 12), (4, 9), and (6, 6), leading to 10 unique rectangles when considering both orientations (length × width and width × length). Thus, a total of 10 different rectangles can be formed.
There are infinitely many such rectangles.