
Connected Pentagon
Problem
How many triangles are in a fully connected pentagon?

Solution
By rotational symmetry, all triangles below exist in exactly five other positions.

Making a total of 7
5 = 35 triangles in the diagram.
What about a fully connected hexagon?
Can you generalise for n-gons?
Problem ID: 177 (Oct 2004) Difficulty: 1 Star
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