2004 AIME I Problems/Problem 3
Problem
A convex polyhedron has 26 vertices, 60 edges, and 36 faces, 24 of which are triangular and 12 of which are quadrilaterals. A space diagonal is a line segment connecting two non-adjacent vertices that do not belong to the same face. How many space diagonals does have?
Solution
Every pair of vertices of the polyhedron determines either an edge, a face diagonal or a space diagonal. We have total line segments determined by the vertices. Of these, 60 are edges. Each triangular face has 0 face diagonals and each quadrilateral face has 2, so there are face diagonals. This leaves segments to be the space diagonals.