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Find the unit digit of:

97 93 91 89 87 83 81 \huge {{{{{{{{97}}^{{{{{{{93}}^{{{{{{91}}^{{{{ {89}}^{{{{87}}^{{{83}}^{81}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}


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3 1 7 9 Cannot be determined.

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2 solutions

Chew-Seong Cheong
Jun 15, 2016

Let the number be 9 7 9 3 a \large 97^{93^a} and we need to find 9 7 9 3 a x (mod 10) 97^{93^a} \equiv x \text{ (mod 10)} . Since 97 and 10 are coprime integers, we can apply Euler's theorem .

9 7 9 3 a 9 7 9 3 a mod 4 (mod 10) ϕ ( 10 ) = 4 9 7 ( 4 × 23 + 1 ) a mod 4 (mod 10) 97 (mod 10) 7 (mod 10) \begin{aligned} \large 97^{93^a} & \equiv \large 97^{93^a \text{ mod }\color{#3D99F6}{4}} \text{ (mod 10)} \quad \quad \small \color{#3D99F6}{\phi (10) = 4} \\ & \equiv \large 97^{(4 \times 23 + 1)^a \text{ mod 4}} \text{ (mod 10)} \\ & \equiv \large 97 \text{ (mod 10)} \\ & \equiv \large \boxed{7} \text{ (mod 10)} \end{aligned}

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Aditya Kumar - 5 years ago

Same method

Mehul Arora - 4 years, 12 months ago
Gargi Gupta
Jun 25, 2016

Did same but I have a second method

83^{81} \equiv -1\ pmod{4}

So 87^{83}^{81} \equiv -1\pmod{4}

Proceeding same we got 93^{91}^{89}^{87}^{83}^{81} \equiv 1\pmod{4}

Now every power of 97 of form 4q+1 has unit digit 7

Did the same!knowing that unit digit of powers of 7 follows cyclicity of 4 & 93^k will leave remainder 1 when divided by 4 we get the answer =7

Deepak Kumar - 4 years, 11 months ago

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