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by srcc25anu » Wed Mar 09, 2011 4:03 pm
How many triangles can be drawn with 17 points, if 5, 7 and 8 of them are in three different lines? The three lines intersect each other in pairs.
1. 680
2. 136
3. 569
4. 171
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by tomada » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:13 pm
Where did you find that problem?

srcc25anu wrote:How many triangles can be drawn with 17 points, if 5, 7 and 8 of them are in three different lines? The three lines intersect each other in pairs.
1. 680
2. 136
3. 569
4. 171
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by stormier » Thu Mar 10, 2011 5:25 pm
srcc25anu wrote:How many triangles can be drawn with 17 points, if 5, 7 and 8 of them are in three different lines? The three lines intersect each other in pairs.
1. 680
2. 136
3. 569
4. 171
Number of 3 point combinations = 17C3 = 680

Of these there are several 3-point combinations that lie on a straight line and do not form a triangle, so we need to discount them.

Number of 3 point combinations that lie on a straight line = 8C3 + 5C3 + 7C3 = 101

Thus number of unique triangles = 680 - 101 = 579

This is a really tough problem. What's the OA ?
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by srcc25anu » Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:00 pm
Stormier - I too got the same answer 579 using the same methodology that u have applied. the OA is 569 though.
Tomada - And i dont exactly recall the source of this problem .... just happened to come across it on some forum.
stormier wrote:
srcc25anu wrote:How many triangles can be drawn with 17 points, if 5, 7 and 8 of them are in three different lines? The three lines intersect each other in pairs.
1. 680
2. 136
3. 569
4. 171
Number of 3 point combinations = 17C3 = 680

Of these there are several 3-point combinations that lie on a straight line and do not form a triangle, so we need to discount them.

Number of 3 point combinations that lie on a straight line = 8C3 + 5C3 + 7C3 = 101

Thus number of unique triangles = 680 - 101 = 579

This is a really tough problem. What's the OA ?
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