There are $12$ persons in a party, and if each two of them shake hands with each other, then how many hand shakes happen in the party?

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The total number of hand shakes are same as the number of ways of selecting $2$ persons among $12$ persons
i.e. $^{12} C_{2} = \frac{12!}{2! 10!} = 66$

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