Question 11 Mark
18 students attended the student union meeting of a school. Each shakes hands with the other only once. Find the total number of handshakes.
Answer
View full question & answer→Number of students $=18$
Here each student shakes hands with the other student only once. We have to get the number of two groups each out of 18 at a time.
Therefore, number of people shaking hands
$\begin{array}{l}={ }^{18} C_2=\frac{18 \times 17}{1 \times 2} \\=9 \times 17 \\=153\end{array}$
Here each student shakes hands with the other student only once. We have to get the number of two groups each out of 18 at a time.
Therefore, number of people shaking hands
$\begin{array}{l}={ }^{18} C_2=\frac{18 \times 17}{1 \times 2} \\=9 \times 17 \\=153\end{array}$