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595 If you have 35 people and everyone shakes hands with everone else, you have 35x34/2 total handshakes. To see this think of three people, and fix one of them, say it's you! You shake hands with everyone meaning you shake hands with 2 people And each of them shakes hands with each other, that is two people other than you so the total 2+1= 3 which is 3x2/2 Try it with 4, you shake hand with 3 people, and they all shake hands with each other so we have your 3 plus 3 more. To see the three more, just look at what we just did above. 4x3/2=6, We divide by 2 to avoid double counting. Because you shake hands with me and I shake hands with you, but we only shake hands once, so divide the total by 2. In general for n people at a party, we have n(n-1)/2handshakes.
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If there are 100 people at a party and they all shake hands once how many hand shakes will there be?
4950
If 2000 people shake hands once with everyone in the room how many hand shakes would take place?
1 999 000
Why is the right hand used to shake hands?
Most people are right-handed, therefore we shake hands with our right (strong) hand.
How many people at a party if 28 hand shakes were done and everyone only did one handshake?
28 people each shook hands once...?
What hand do you shake anther persons hand with?
You shake someone's hand with your right hand. Unless you are a Boy Scout greeting another scout in uniform. Lord Baden-Powell instituted the left hand shake to emulate the Ashanti warriors of Africa who shook with their left hands as it necessitated letting go of their shields - thus indicating trust in the other party.
Candidate try to get people to vote for them by giving?
they give people a hand shake
What other way can you greet people?
you can shake there hand bow to them smile at them
What hand do you shake with?
In most cultures, it is traditional to shake with the right hand.In Europe, for example, this was a sign of trust; you allowed the other person to clasp your sword hand, preventing you from initiating an attack.Whereas in the Middle East, this was and is a sign of respect; using the left hand for most tasks was taboo, as it was used exclusively for matters of personal hygiene.
If you have 28 hand shakes how many people in the room?
i dont know there could be other peolple in the room besides the people doing hand shakes but if there werent, and there were only two people to each hand shake, there would be 56 people in the room. Or if you mean a general hand shake that you did 28 times, there could only be 2 people in the room.
When you on Nokia mobile then shake-hand two people who they are?
animating hands by the nokia
If seven girls arrived at a tea party and each of them shake hands once with each of the others how many hand shakes is that?
Six
Why do people shack hands with there right hand and not with there left?
People shake hands with their right hand and not their left one because using the left hand is considered to be improper etiquette.
