Party Handshakes
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At a party, everyone shook hands with everybody else. There were 66 handshakes. How many people were at the party?
40
22
33
12
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1 solution
Number of handshakes will be equal to nC2 were n is the number of people ... So if
nC2=66,
We can solve for n which comes out to be 12