2023 AIME I Problems/Problem 3
Problem
A plane contains 
lines, no 
of which are parallel. Suppose that there are 
points where exactly lines intersect, 
points where exactly lines intersect, 
points where exactly lines intersect, 
points where exactly lines intersect, and no points where more than lines intersect. Find the number of points where exactly lines intersect.
Solution 1
In this solution, let 
-line points be the points where exactly 
lines intersect. We wish to find the number of -line points.
There are 
pairs of lines. Among them:
- The
-line points account for 
pairs of lines.
pairs of lines.- The
-line points account for 
pairs of lines.
pairs of lines.- The
-line points account for 
pairs of lines.
pairs of lines.- The
-line points account for 
pairs of lines.
pairs of lines.It follows that the -line points account for 
pairs of lines, where each pair intersect at a single point.
~Steven Chen (Professor Chen Education Palace, www.professorchenedu.com)
~MRENTHUSIASM
Solution 2
We can see that for n lines, there should be 
points where two lines intersect assuming that there are only points where two lines meet. Thus there should be 
points where two lines intersect
Video Solution by TheBeautyofMath
~IceMatrix
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