If there are 6 people in a room, and each person shakes hands with every otherperson in the room, then there will be 15 separate and distinct handshakesbetween different pairs of people.
Type your answer here... 6
if there are 2 people in a room and each one shakes hands once with every other person in the room, how many hand shakes are there?... answer( 1 handshake) pretty easy isn't it? if there are 3 people in a room and everyone shakes hands with everyone else, how many hand shakes are there? answer( three handshakes) now how many handshakes will there be for 5 people in a room? its your time to shyne...
Assuming that each person shakes hands with every other person, there are 12 people. Let n be the number of people. Then each person shakes hands with (n-1) people and if you ask every person how many hand shakes they made and total them you will get a total of n(n-1) handshakes. However, each handshake involves two people and has been counted twice - once by each person that shook hands - thus number of hand shakes is half of this, giving: n(n-1)/2 = 66 ⇒ n(n-1) = 132 ⇒ n2 - n - 132 = 0 ⇒ (n - 12)(n + 11) = 0 ⇒ n = 12 or -11 You can't have -11 people, therefore there are 12 people.
20 hand shakes would take place. Here's how: 1234567 23456 34567 4567 567 67 7 And a person can't shake his own hand or someones hands twice
The first guy shakes hands with 6 other people. The next guy has already shaken the first one's hand, so she has only 5 other people to handshake & so on down to the last two people with a single handshake. All together there are 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 21 handshakes
Everyone shakes hands with 4 other people. Since there are 5 people in the room this would suggest there are 5*4 = 20 handshakes. However, you would then be double counting handshakes: A shaking hands with B and B shaking hands with A is, in reality, only one handshake. Thus there are 5*4/2 = 10 handshakes in all.
The correct answer is 21. The first person shakes hands with the other 6 people. The second person shakes hands with 5 people because they already shook hands with the first person. The third person shakes hands with 4 people because they already shook hands with the first and second person. The fourth person shakes hands with 3 people because they already shook hands with the first, second, and third. The fifth person shakes hands with 2 people because they already shook hands with the first, second, third, and fourth person. The sixth person shakes hands with the seventh person because the rest have already shaken hands with them. The seventh person doesn't have anyone else to shake hands with. So the total would be 21...
The answer is 21 handshakes because the first person shakes hands with the other 6 people. The second person shakes hands with 5 people because they already shook hands with the first person. The third person shakes hands with 4 people because they already shook hands with the first and second person. The fourth person shakes hands with 3 people because they already shook hands with the first, second, and third. The fifth person shakes hands with 2 people because they already shook hands with the first, second, third, and fourth person. The sixth person shakes hands with the seventh person because the rest have already shaken hands with them. The seventh person doesn't have anyone else to shake hands with. Therefore the answer is 21 handshakes.
If there are seven people, then the number of handshakes is 7*6/2 = 21
If there are 6 people in a room, and each person shakes hands with every otherperson in the room, then there will be 15 separate and distinct handshakesbetween different pairs of people.
72
Type your answer here... 6
the first shakes 8 people's hands (remember, not his own), the second 7 (he doesn't shake the first one's hand), then the third shakes six, the fourth shakes 5, the fifth shakes 4, the sixth shakes 3, the seventh shakes 2, and the 8th shakes the 9ths hand so 8+7+6+5+4+3+2+1 = 36
if there are 2 people in a room and each one shakes hands once with every other person in the room, how many hand shakes are there?... answer( 1 handshake) pretty easy isn't it? if there are 3 people in a room and everyone shakes hands with everyone else, how many hand shakes are there? answer( three handshakes) now how many handshakes will there be for 5 people in a room? its your time to shyne...
Assuming that each person shakes hands with every other person, there are 12 people. Let n be the number of people. Then each person shakes hands with (n-1) people and if you ask every person how many hand shakes they made and total them you will get a total of n(n-1) handshakes. However, each handshake involves two people and has been counted twice - once by each person that shook hands - thus number of hand shakes is half of this, giving: n(n-1)/2 = 66 ⇒ n(n-1) = 132 ⇒ n2 - n - 132 = 0 ⇒ (n - 12)(n + 11) = 0 ⇒ n = 12 or -11 You can't have -11 people, therefore there are 12 people.
20 hand shakes would take place. Here's how: 1234567 23456 34567 4567 567 67 7 And a person can't shake his own hand or someones hands twice