How many triangles can you construct from the grid of dots?
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Any three dots may form a triangle except when there are colinear (shown in blue),
No. of non degenerate triangles = 3 6 C 3 − 1 4 × 6 C 3 − 4 × ( 3 C 3 + 4 C 3 + 5 C 3 ) − 4 × 2 × 4 × 3 C 3 = 7 1 4 0 − 2 8 0 − 6 0 − 3 2 = 6 7 6 8
Colinear dots (slope =1) 1 4 × 6 C 3 = 6 rows + 6 columns + 2 diagonals each of them has 6 dots.
Colinear dots 4 × ( 3 C 3 + 4 C 3 + 5 C 3 ) as shown in figure
Colinear dots (slope =2) 4 × 2 × 4 × 3 C 3 as shown in figure