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How many handshakes if 6 people shakes hands with every other person in the room?
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.
How many handshakes if 4 people shakes hands with every other person in the room?
Type your answer here... 6
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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...
How many people are there if everyone shakes hands and there are 66 handshakes?
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.
If seven people are in a room and they shake hands with each other once how many hand shakes would take place?
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
