# Number of lines/triangles determined by n points

Can someone please illustrate how this plane works by drawing. I just want to get an idea of how this plane works.

There are n points in the plane, such that no three points are on the same line. a) How many straight lines contain a pair of these points? b) How many triangles contain three of these points as vertices? Any help would be great!

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Given $n$ non-collinear points, there exists a distinct line for every pair of points and hence there are $\dbinom{n}2$ lines through these $n$ points.
Similarly, a triangle is uniquely determined by $3$ non-collinear points and hence the number of triangles is $\dbinom{n}3$.
User141421 has answered your question. I just want to mention that one can easily construct for any $n$, points satisfying your hypothesis. For example, choose any set of distinct points in the unit circle. So you can, for some mangeable size of $n$, construct and see.