Handshakes at a dinner party

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Hilary and Jocelyn are throwing a dinner party at their house and have invited four other couples.  After the guests arrive, people greet each other by shaking hands.  As you would expect, a couple do not shake hands with each other and no two people shake each other’s hands more than once.  At some point during the handshaking process, Jocelyn gets up on a table and tells everyone to stop shaking hands.  She also asks each person how many hands they have shaken and learns that no two people on the floor have shaken the same number of hands.  How many hands has Hilary shaken?

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    8 AS HIS OTHER PArt was on the table so only one possible to have 8 as 9 people and 9 possiblites was their from 0 to 8

    Yodha Expert Answered on 4th April 2016.

    4 is the right answer 🙂

    on 5th April 2016.

    Look at the logic is there anything wrong.your answer is not right.delete the comment after checking .it would be insulting if admin made a mistake.i believe mistakes happen but others don’t take it that way

    on 6th April 2016.
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