Skew Line Pairs

Problem

Take the 44 vertices and 66 edge-midpoints of a tetrahedron — 1010 points in all. Among all lines determined by pairs of these points, how many pairs of lines are skew?

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Difficulty8/10
Topicscombinatorics, Counting, solid geometry, Casework

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