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Consider the pentagon ABCDE. By drawing diagonals from B, we get: 1. Triangle ABE 2. Triangle BDE 3. Triangle BCD -Ashwin Hendre
A diagonal is normally defined as a straight line joining a vertex of a polygon with any vertex other than an adjoining vertex (lines joining a vertex to an adjoining vertex would simply be a side of the polygon). Since a triangle has only got adjoining vertices, it has no diagonals. Since there are no diagonals, they cannot bisect one another.
An n-gon has n(n-3)/2 total diagonals. You can draw n-3 diagonals from each vertex ( n>3) ( A triangle doesn't really have a diagonal) An alternative way of seeing this: from any vertex, you can draw a diagonal to any other vertex except itself and the immediate neighbour on either side (the latter would be sides of the n-gon). This gives n-3 diagonals.
a triangle has three diagonals as well as three sides