ENDING ZEROES

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HOW MANY ZEROES 0'S WILL BE THERE AT THE END OF N= 7 X 14 X 21 X... 777 ?

25 26 none of these 24

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Kenny Lau
Jul 10, 2014

7 × 14 × 21 × × 777 = 7 111 × 1 × 2 × 3 × × 111 = 7 111 × 111 ! 7\times14\times21\times\cdots\times777=7^{111}\times1\times2\times3\times\cdots\times111=7^{111}\times111! For each zero at the end of N N , there are one 2 and one 5 in the list of the factors of N N . Since the number of 2's in the factor is much bigger than that of 5's there, we can ignore 2.

The number of 5's in 111 ! 111! = 111 5 + 111 25 = 22 + 4 = 26 \begin{array}{l} =\left\lfloor\frac{111}5\right\rfloor+\left\lfloor\frac{111}{25}\right\rfloor\\ =22+4\\ =26 \end{array}

Since 7 111 7^{111} contains no 5's, it is ignored.

Therefore there are 26 zeros at the end of N.

simple again : group it as (7X1)X(7X2)X(7X3)... (7X111) now if we take out all the 7s , we get 7e111 X (111 !(factorial)) now the answer depends on 111 factorial and we find out the number of 5s in 111 factorial as out of 2s and 5s [for number of 0s] number of 5s is the restricting factor, so floor of 111/5 +111/25 =26

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