4*3/2 = 6 handshakes.
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∙ 9y agoif 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...
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105 ( First person shakes 14 different hands, second shakes 13 etc etc down to 14th shakes 1 hand. Sum of 1 to 14 = 105.)
45 handshakes
10
9 handshakes correct answer is 10
25 shakes
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If there are seven people, then the number of handshakes is 7*6/2 = 21
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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
10
6
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.
It shakes them up. :)
72
First person shakes hands 19 times, second person 18 etc, a total of 190.