Question 549499

If total number of persons = n

number of handshakes = nC2

For 2,3,4, 5, 6... people number of handshakes will be 1,3,6,10,15.... respectively.

Because  here 10 is smallest value greater than 7. 

minimum number of handshakes which were not done = 10-7 = 3


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