Seventeen Intersections

X infinite straight lines are drawn on a plane. There are no three lines intersecting on a single point. If there is a total of 17 intersection points, what can X be at minimum?

If the question was asked for 5 intersection points, then the answer would be 4 (an example drawing is given above).

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