SOLUTION: How many triangles can be found from joining the vertices of a hexagon? Can you please provide me with a formula that will help me solve this question. Regards.

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Question 910252: How many triangles can be found from joining the vertices of a hexagon? Can you please provide me with a formula that will help me solve this question.
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Answer by rothauserc(4718) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
I assume you are talking about a regular polygon ( all sides of equal length)
number of triangles = n - 2 where n is the number of sides
hexagon has 6 sides so 6-2 = 4 triangles