+20 How many different non-congruent isosceles triangles can be formed by connecting three of the dots in a 4x4 square array of dots?
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Two triangles are congruent if they have the same traced outline, possibly up to rotating and flipping. This is equivalent to having the same set of 3 side lengths.
And no 9 is not the answer.
We have the following list of triangles:
(2,2,sqrt(10))
(sqrt(10),sqrt(10),sqrt(2))
(2*sqrt(2),2*sqrt(2),3*sqrt(2))
(sqrt(2),sqrt(2),2)
(2,2,2)
(1,1,sqrt(2))
(2*sqrt(2),2*sqrt(2),2)
(2*sqrt(2),2*sqrt(2),2*sqrt(2))
(sqrt(5),sqrt(5),sqrt(10))
(sqrt(2),sqrt(2),sqrt(2))
(sqrt(5),sqrt(5),sqrt(2))
(sqrt(5),sqrt(5),2)
(sqrt(10),sqrt(10),sqrt(10))
(sqrt(5),sqrt(5),sqrt(5))
So there are 14 possible triangles.
