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Problem
Points , and are vertices of an equilateral triangle, and points , and are midpoints of its sides. How many noncongruent triangles can be drawn using any three of these six points as vertices? 
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
Solution
There are points in the figure, and of them are needed to form a triangle, so there are possible triplets of the points. However, some of these created congruent triangles, and some don't even make triangles at all. Case 1: Triangles congruent to There is obviously only of these: itself. Case 2: Triangles congruent to There are of these: and . Case 3: Triangles congruent to There are of these: and . Case 4: Triangles congruent to There are again of these: and . However, if we add these up, we accounted for only of the possible triplets. We see that the remaining triplets don't even form triangles; they are and . Adding these into the total yields for all of the possible triplets, so we see that there are only possible non-congruent, non-degenerate triangles,
Final answer
D