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How many people in party?

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November 20, 2012 by puzzler 3 Comments

At a party, everyone shook hands with everybody else. There were 66 handshakes. How many people were at the party?
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lets say there are n persons
first person shakes hand with everyone else: n-1 times(n-1 persons)
second person shakes hand with everyone else(not with 1st as its already done): n-2 times
3rd person shakes hands with remaining persons: n-3

So total handshakes will be = (n-1) + (n-2) + (n-3) +…… 0;
= (n-1)*(n-1+1)/2 = (n-1)*n/2 = 66
= n^2 -n = 132
=(n-12)(n+11) = 0;
= n = 12 OR n =-11
-11 is ruled out so the answer is 12 persons.

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  1. The_Geek says

    October 26, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    we can think this problem as a complete graph problem.
    In a 4 vertices complete graph, no. of edges are n(n-1)/2, i.e. 6
    Similarly here n(n-1)/2=66
    so n(n-1)=132,
    hence n=12.

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  2. shubham says

    September 25, 2014 at 8:48 pm

    Ans is 12 by te formula of e=mc^2 lol:p

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  3. vinay says

    December 28, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    12 people in the party
    (n)c(2) = 66.

    Reply

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