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Vinil7 [7]
3 years ago
6

At a party, everyone shook hands with everybody else. These were 66 handshakes. How many people were at the party?

Mathematics
1 answer:
nignag [31]3 years ago
7 0
In general, with n+1 people, the number of handshakes is the sum of the first n consecutive numbers: 1+2+3+ ... + n. Since this sum is n(n+1)/2, we need to solve the equation n(n+1)/2 = 66. This is the quadratic equation n2+ n -132 = 0. Solving for n, we obtain 11 as the answer and deduce that there were 12 people at the party.
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