Dan takes a cream-coloured square of paper.
He places a blue square on top of it, and then places a green square on top of that, covering a corner of the blue square and part of the cream square, as shown on the right.
Then he cuts the pile of paper along the two lines shown.
How many of the pieces that he ends up with are squares?
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