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Everybody in a room shakes hands with everybody else. The total number of hand shakes is 66. The total number of persons in the room is?

Correct Answer: 12

Explanation:

Let there be n persons in the room. The total number of hand shakes is same as the number of ways of selecting 2 out of n.
nC2 = 66
⇒ n(n - 1) / 2! = 66
⇒ n2 - n - 132 = 0
⇒ (n - 12) (n + 11) = 0
∴ n = 12


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