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How many obtuse angle triangles can you draw from the vertices of a regular 100 100 -gon?

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The answer is 117600.

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Inscribe the 100-gon inside a circle. A triangle inscribed in this circle will be obtuse if all three of its vertices lie on one side of a diameter of the circle. (See this wiki for an explanation.)

With 100 100 equidistant point on this circle, we can form 50 50 diameters using the 100-gon vertices, where in each case 49 49 vertices lie on one side of the diameter and 49 49 on the other. Now in turn choose each of the 100 100 vertices as the "starting" vertex moving clockwise, with this starting vertex as one end of a diameter. We can then choose 2 2 of the 49 49 vertices on the "clockwise" side of this diameter as the other two vertices of an obtuse triangle. In this way we account for all possible desired obtuse triangles, the number of which is

100 × ( 49 2 ) = 100 × 49 48 2 = 117600 100 \times \dbinom{49}{2} = 100 \times \dfrac{49*48}{2} = \boxed{117600} .

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