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Tofind:The how many handshakes will be exchanged.
Answer to Problem 28SGR
Thehandshake will be
Explanation of Solution
Given information:The given information is:Six people are introduced at abusiness convention. If each person shakes hands with each of the others, how many handshakes will be exchanged?
Calculation:
Let consider the statement.
Six people are introduced at abusiness convention. If each person shakes hands with each of the others, how many handshakes will be exchanged?
Now,
Let, if there are n persons and each person shakes hands with each of the others, there will be
But, since handshake between person
To be precise, the number of handshakes will be
There are
Therefore, if there are
Number of handshakes:
Points represent people and lines handshakes.
Therefore, the handshake will be
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