375.Ten Lines, Many Regions
★★★combinatoricsCh. 1 — Classical Probability and Combinatorics444+ Problems in Probability
Determine the maximum number of regions into which the plane can be divided by 10 lines, no two parallel. (A single line divides the plane into 2 regions.)
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When the th line is added, each intersection it makes with earlier lines splits one more region.
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