SOLUTION: Determine the number of different triangles that can be drawn given eight noncollinear points?

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Question 1181576: Determine the number of different triangles that can be drawn given eight
noncollinear points?

Answer by ikleyn(52898)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Each triangle is determined in a UNIQUE way by its three vertices.


THEREFORE, the number of triangle in this problem is equal to the number of all sets of three points 
that can be chosen from 8 given noncollinear points.


It is the number of combinations of 3 points chosen from 8 points


     =  = 8*7 = 56.    ANSWER

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