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7) There are 260 athletes at a meeting.
How many handshakes were there?

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User Package
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there are 130 because if yiu divided 260 by each of the groups tibether all of them would dived to 269
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User Brujoand
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Answer:

130

Explanation:

Assuming everyone handshakes at the meeting. There will be 130 handshakes in total.

It takes 2 people to handshake, and thus to find the number of handshakes we need to do 260/2=130

130 total handshakes

Hope this helps ^^

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