Count the regions

Ravi and vishal are playing Quiz in them, it's turn of vishal to ask question to Ravi, so the question of Vishal is " You have given n number of V shaped Rods. you can arrange them in any way (two V shaped roads may or not intersect each other) you can bisect them or join them in a perpendicular or Parallel way. Your task is to answer maximum possible number of region we can create by arranging n