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lawyer [7]
3 years ago
9

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

Mathematics
2 answers:
ryzh [129]3 years ago
6 0
N - the number of people
Everyone shook hands with everybody else, so we must know how many ways there are to choose 2 people from the group of n people. Using combination:
\binom{n}{2}=\frac{n!}{2!(n-2)!}=\frac{(n-2)! \times (n-1) \times n}{2(n-2)!}=\frac{(n-1)n}{2}

There were 66 handshakes.
66=\frac{(n-1)n}{2} \\
132=(n-1)n \\
132=n^2-n \\
n^2-n-132=0 \\
n^2+11n-12n-132=0 \\
n(n+11)-12(n+11)=0 \\
(n-12)(n+11)=0 \\
n-12=0 \ \lor \ n+11=0 \\
n=12 \ \lor \ n=-11

The number of people must be a positive number, so n=12.
There were 12 people at the party.
Neporo4naja [7]3 years ago
4 0


Every body has two hands so we have to multiply 66 by 2.

66 multiplied by 2 is equal to 132

The answer is 132.

hope it helps.

Can you choose mine as the brainliest answer <u><em>please please?</em></u>

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