Find number of quadrilaterals

Find the number of quadrilaterals in the given picture below.

Note : The figure is not drawn with scale

497 500 13 l o g ( 7 ) 13*log(7) 9! 300 496 121 More than 1000

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2 solutions

Ashish Menon
Feb 5, 2016

Let us first consider 1 quadrilateral In this figure, there is only 1 1 quadrilateral

Let us consider 2 quadrilaterals In this figure there are 4 4 quadrilaterals

Let us consider 3 quadrilaterals In this figure there are 9 9 quadrilaterals.

Let us consider 4 quadrilaterals In this figure there are 16 16 quadrilaterals.

Let us consider 5 quadrilaterals. In this figure there are 25 25 quadrilaterals.

So, we observe, the number of quadrilaterals, in each case is the s q u a r e square of the number of quadrilaterals on the same base. For example, in case 2, there are 2 2 quadrilaterals on the same base. So, the total number of quadrilaterals are 2 2 2^2 = 4 4 .

So, in the given figure(question) there are 11 quadrilaterals on the same base. So, the total number of quadrilateral are 1 1 2 11^2 = 121 121 Hope you like the solution :-)

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Kenneth Tan
Mar 25, 2016

There are 11 "candidate lines" on each side. We can easily see that we can only form a quadrilateral by choosing 1 candidate line from each side. Hence the total number of quadrilaterals is ( 11 1 ) × ( 11 1 ) = 121 {11\choose1} \times{11\choose1}=121

Great, tan. I hope to see more of interesting problems from you in future.

Ashish Menon - 5 years, 2 months ago

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