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Morgarella [4.7K]
2 years ago
5

At a business meeting every person shakes each other's hand once if they were 91 handshakes in total the number of people at the

meet is

Mathematics
1 answer:
Scorpion4ik [409]2 years ago
4 0
This is basically asking you to find the number of vertices n of a complete graph that has 91 edges. (I've attached an example of one where n=7, taken from Wiki "complete graph" article)

Let's say you have n unconnected vertices, each labelled with a number v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_n (just for the purpose of tracking which ones you've already taken into account). Draw edges connecting v_1 to all the other vertices. There are n-1 possible edges you can draw.

Now starting from v_2, there's already an edge between it and v_1, which means there are n-2 other possible edges that you can draw.

Next, from v_3, you can only draw n-3 new edges because v_3 is already connected to v_1 and v_2.

Continuing in this pattern, you find that the second-to-last edge, v_{n-1} can only be connected once to v_n, and finally arriving at v_n you find that all possible connections have been exhausted.

The takeaway here is that the total number of possible connections is the sum

S=(n-1)+(n-2)+(n-3)+\cdots+1+0

Writing the terms in reverse order, you have

S=0+1+2+\cdots+(n-2)+(n-1)

So now if you add up the first, second, ..., terms of the two equivalent sums, you have

2S=(n-1+0)+(n-2+1)+(n-3+2)+\cdots+(1+n-2)+(0+n-1)
2S=(n-1)+(n-1)+(n-1)+\cdots+(n-1)+(n-1)

In other words, you're adding up n-1, n times (since each n-1 corresponds to a distinct vertex), so you have

2S=n(n-1)

Dividing by 2, you end up with

S=\dfrac{n(n-1)}2

Now, since you know that 91 handshakes took place in total, you have

91=\dfrac{n(n-1)}2\implies 182=n(n-1)\implies n=-14,13

Obviously, we omit the negative solution, so there were 13 people at the meeting.

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