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sergiy2304 [10]
2 years ago
10

A curious patterns occurs in a group of people who all shake hands with one another. It turns out that you can predict the numbe

r of handshakes that will occur if you know the number of people. If we are in a room of 5 people, we can determine the number of handshakes by this line of reasoning: The first person will shake 4 hands (she won’t shake her own). The second person will shake 3 hands (he won’t shake his own of the hand of the first person, they already shook). The third person will shake 2 hands (same reasoning). The fourth person will shake 1 hand (that of the fifth person). The fifth person will shake 0 hands. So there will be a total of 1+2+3+4=10 handshakes
Mathematics
1 answer:
ycow [4]2 years ago
7 0

Missing part of the question

Determine the number of handshakes, i, that will occur for each number of people, n, in a particular room. (people)

Answer:

S_n = \frac{n}{2}(n - 1)

Step-by-step explanation:

Given

For 5 people

\begin{array}{cc}{People} & {Handshakes} & {5} & {4} & {4} & {3} & {3} & {2} & {2} & {1} & {1} & {0} &{Total} & {10} \ \end{array}

Using the given instance of 5 people, the number of handshakes can be represented as:

(n - 1) + (n - 2) + (n - 3) + ........ + 3 + 2 + 1 + 0

The above sequence is an arithmetic sequence and the total number of handshakes is the sum of n terms of the sequence.

S_n = \frac{n}{2}{(T_1 + T_n})

Where

T_1 = n - 1 --- The first term

T_n = 0 --- The last term

So:

S_n = \frac{n}{2}(n - 1 + 0)

S_n = \frac{n}{2}(n - 1)

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