How many triangles are in a fully connected pentagon with all its diagonals?
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That's a clear way of counting to ensure we got everything.
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Can we use the compliment rule here? Eg. Total triangles using all points - those triangles which aren't able to form due to collinearity = 10C3 - 5(4C3) but something is wrong answer isn't coming. :/ help
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There are many more sets of 3 points which do not yield a triangle (with lines given by that in the diagram). For example, take any 2 points on the inner pentagon, and 1 point on the outer pentagon (which also includes the case of 3 collinear points like you mentioned).
Yeah, I did the same. It should be a combinatorics problem instead of geometry problem.
Firstly there are 10 small outer triangles around the edge of the pentagon.
Secondly there are 5 large triangles given by any 2 adjacent points on the outer pentagon and the point on the opposite side.
Inside each of these 5 triangles there are 4 more triangles giving us the total of: 1 0 + 5 + ( 5 × 4 ) = 3 5
5 main triangles in the pentagon , each gives 7 so 5 * 7 gives 35
would you please tell me how it is???
What do you mean by "5 main triangles, each gives 7"?
There is double-counting in your answer. Plus each main triangle has 9 triangles!! You made 2 mistakes and got the correct answer!!
How I counted: First forget the star and notice that the top triangle has 6 triangles are there are 5 of these so 6*5=30. Now looking at the star you see one more triangle which there are five of and so we can conclude 30+5=35
With each side of pentagon we are getting 4 triangles. So for 5 sides we r getting 5*4= 20 triangles. Taking 2 adjacent sides we are getting 5C2 =10 triangles. Lastly, we are getting 5 triangles from each vertices. Total no of triangles= 20+10+5=35
how do you get 4 triangles on each side of pentagon please make it clear
on each vertex there are 7 triangles :. there are 7times5=35
Can you explain what you mean by "on each vertex there are 7 triangles"? Also, won't this result in a lot of double counting?
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SIR is there any general formula for these type of questions
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Yes, there is a general formula for the generalization of this formula. However, instead of just memorizing the formula, you should seek to understand how one can perform such a counting, which would allow you to derive the answer for other cases.
As for "these types of questions", no not necessarily. Sometimes you need to do a case by case analysis.
Single triangle based are 10 ( at each vertex ), double triangle based are 10 ( at each vertex ) , triple triangle based are 5 ( at each vertex ) center pentagon+2 triangle based are 5 center pentagon+3 triangle based are 5
from each base of pentagon there are 3 triangles and 5 are inside it
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First, any three points of the outer pentagon will give us a triangle ( 5C3); Next, we consider triangle that have 2 points outside and 1 point inside. With each point inside, there is one point outside that is not connected, and 2 pairs of point that in a line, leaving 4C2 - 2 = 4 options; and there are 5 points inside (5x4) Third, there are only 5 triangles with 2 points inside and 1 point outside, since 2 points inside must be next to together to be connected, and each pair has only 1 point outside that make them a triangle (5) There is no 3 points inside that all connected together. Hence, the answer is 5C3 + 5x4 + 5 = 35