Consider the following problem and then choose which of the statements below is NOT true. If each of 10 people at a meeting shakes hands (once) with every other person, how many handshakes are exchanged?

a. The descriptive model might be "Ten people shaking hands with nine folks each… a couple fewer because you want to avoid repetitions . . . say something like maybe sixty to seventy?"
b. The normative method will yield the "correct" answer: in this case, N x ((N-1)/2).
c. A heuristic approach is not necessarily systematic or orderly, instead relying on educated guessing.
d. The algorithmic approach will differ substantially from the normative model of what is "right"; that is, it is particularly prone to distortions, inaccuracies, and omissions.


Answer: b

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