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The first person can be selected in one of seven ways. Having selected him, the second can be selected from the remaining six in six ways. So there would appear to be 7*6 ways of selecting the couples shaking hands.

But, x shaking y's hand is the same handshake as y shaking x's hand. Thus each handshake is conted twice, So the total number of handshakes is 7*6/2 = 21

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