Designed for elementary and middle school students	Basketball Team     There are ten girls on a basketball team all of different heights ranging from 5 feet to 6 feet 2 inches. If each girl on the team only shakes hands with any girl who is shorter, how many handshakes will occur? Submitted by Molly Rothermel, Rye Junior High, Rye, NH
January 23, 2006
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	Phillip Ai. Hammarskjold Middle School, East Brunswick, NJ Pamela Chretien. Hastings Middle School, Fairhaven, MA David Shi. JLS Middle School, Palo Alto, CA Andrew LaMonica. York Middle School, York, ME Alec Jordan. York Middle School, York, ME Rohit Bollineni. Power Middle School, Farmington Hills, MI Jeremy DeMoranville. Hastings Middle School, Fairhaven, MA Joel Brown. Lawrence Junior High School, Falmouth, MA Patrick McHenry. Beck Middle School, Cherry Hill, NJ Nicole Milad. Rye Junior High School, Rye, NH Sahana Vasudevan. Vargas Elementary School, Sunnyvale, CA Congyue I. Sukthose. Jane Moogra Middle Study, Palo Alto, CA Becca Neeland.  Pembroke Intermediate, Corfu, NY Jenna Lawson. Pembroke Intermediate School, Corfu, NY Sahit Bollineni. Highmeadow Common Campus, Farmington Hills, MI Cody Scarlett. Clever Middle School, Clever, MO Madeleine Pearson. Blue Oak Middle School, Napa, CA Roman Zyla. Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic School, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hannah Unger. Rye Junior High School, Rye, NH Jessica Dean. Timothy Edwards Middle School, South Windsor, CT Shivam Sarodia. Normandy Elementery, Centerville, OH Kelsey Abrams. Rye Junior High School, Rye, NH Garrett Messier. Hastings Middle School, Fairhaven, MA Christopher Costa. Hastings Middle School, Fairhaven, MA Michael Shetinin. Pembroke Intermediate School, Corfu, NY Mrinal Singh. Kendriya Vidyalaya, Happy Valley, Shillong, India Anna Shang. Balboa Middle School, Ventura, CA Corina Fitzgerald. York Middle School, York, ME Lauren Durkin. York Middle School, York, ME Danielle Simpson. York Middle School, York, ME Colleen Keenan. York Middle School, York, ME Gideon Walker. Cowden Elementary, Springfield, MO
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