How many can you make?

A parallelogram A B C D ABCD divided by 2 sets of 10 lines which are parallel to A B AB and B C BC respectively. Then how many parallelograms are formed?


The answer is 4356.

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1 solution

Ashish Menon
May 15, 2016

The first set of 10 parallel lines are parallel to AB and thus CD. Now we have to choose 2 lines among these 12 lines which can be found by 0 12 C 2 {\phantom{0}}^{12}C_{2} (10 lines + 2 sides). Similarly, we have to choose two lines from the second set which are parallel to BC and thua DA. Thus too can be found by 0 12 C 2 {\phantom{0}}^{12}C_{2} . So, the total number of parallelograms that can be formed = 0 12 C 2 × 0 12 C 2 = 12 ! 2 ! × 10 ! × 12 ! 2 ! × 10 ! = 66 × 66 = 4356 = {\phantom{0}}^{12}C_{2} × {\phantom{0}}^{12}C_{2}\\ = \dfrac{12!}{2! × 10!} × \dfrac{12!}{2! × 10!}\\ = 66 × 66\\ = \boxed{4356} .

Yup, did the same . Nice question

Aditya Kumar - 5 years ago

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Thanks! :)

Ashish Menon - 5 years ago

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