Find the units digit of:
∏ n = 1 9 n n + 2
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A tricky problem, I like it!
This only works after 5^7
One thing though, it doesn't go up to 1 0 1 2 ! It only goes up to 9 1 1 .
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I'm sorry, another mistake from me. Fixed it.
WOAH...The units, tens, hundredths, thousandths, ten thousandths, hundred thousandths, and the millionths digits are also zero.........by prime factorization.
∏ n = 1 9 n n + 2 = 1 3 × 2 4 × 3 5 × 4 6 × 5 7 × 6 8 × 7 9 × 8 1 0 × 9 1 1 By writing out some of the numbers by their factors and adding powers together , we can write this as 2 5 4 × 3 3 5 × 5 7 × 7 9 . If you examine the first 8 powers of 2 you can see a pattern. The unit digits always end in 2,4,8 and 6 and this repeats for the rest of the powers of 2. By using sequences you can work out that 2 5 4 will end with 4 (its unit digit). This can be done for 3,5 and 7 which also have a pattern of repeating unit digits (does not take long to do). The unit digits for 3 3 5 , 5 7 and 7 9 are 7,5 and 7 respectively. Knowing that the unit digits are 4,7,5 and 7 for the above numbers the product is 4 × 7 × 5 × 7 = 9 8 0 which has a unit digit of 0 which is the answer.
2×5=10, end of story
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∏ n = 1 9 n n + 2 = 1 3 × 2 4 × 3 5 × 4 6 × 5 7 × 6 8 × 7 9 × 8 1 0 × 9 1 1
From the operation, we know that there's prime factors of 2 and 5 , resulting 1 0 when multiplied, which its units digit is 0 .
Thus, the units digit of ∏ n = 1 9 n n + 2 is 0