True or false :
Product of consecutive natural numbers is divisible by .
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From combinatorics, ( r n ) ∈ Z + for every n , r ∈ Z and 0 ≤ r ≤ n [Since the enumeration of picking r things out of n things must be a positive integer].
Now, ( r n ) ∈ Z + ⇒ r ! ∏ j = 0 r − 1 ( n − j ) ∈ Z + , i.e. product of r consecutive natural numbers is divisible by r ! .