Maximum Area of a Polygon with Vertices of a Polygon [closed]

Question

Rules

Given a list of integer coordinates, l, with a length of at least 4, and an integer n such that n is smaller than the length of l (but at least 3), return the largest area of an n-sided polygon satisfies:

• is simple (not self-intersecting).
• has all the coordinates of its n vertices in the list l.
• has no three consecutive collinear vertices.

Note that the polygon given in the input should comply to the three points above as well.

Test Cases

Here are a few test cases:

[(0,0), (0,-1), (-1,-1), (-1,0)], 3 -> 0.5
[(0,0), (1,0), (2,1), (2,2), (1,3), (0,3), (-1,2), (-1,1)], 3 -> 3
[(0,0), (1,0), (2,1), (2,2), (1,3), (0,3), (-1,2), (-1,1)], 5 -> 5.5
[(0,0), (1,0), (2,1), (2,2), (1,3), (0,3), (-1,2), (-1,1)], 6 -> 6

You can try any test cases you like here.

Make your code as short as possible.

Answer 1

Python 2, 172 bytes

-1 byte thanks to J843136028

bug fix thanks to Jonathan Frech

from itertools import*
def f(l,n,L=()):
 for p in combinations(l,n):
  r=0;j=-1
  for i in range(n):r+=(p[j][0]+p[i][0])*(p[j][1]-p[i][1]);j=i
  L+=abs(r/2.),
 print max(L)

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