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Toothpick Polygon
A regular polygon is created by placing N toothpicks of equal size end to end.

The polygon is then altered by moving exactly two of the toothpicks. The resulting figure is still a polygon, but it has 31/3% less interior diagonals.

What is the value of N?


Problem Moderated by: Douglas
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