Odd! Product!

What is the product of all positive odd integers less than 10000 10000 ?

10000 ! ( 5000 ! ) 2 \dfrac{10000!}{(5000!)^2} 5000 ! 2 5000 \dfrac{5000!}{2^{5000}} 9999 ! 2 5000 \dfrac{9999!}{2^{5000}} 10000 ! 2 5000 5000 ! \dfrac{10000!}{2^{5000}\cdot5000!} 10000 ! 2 5000 \dfrac{10000!}{2^{5000}}

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4 solutions

Chew-Seong Cheong
Mar 28, 2015

1 × 3 × 5 × 7 × 9... × 9999 = 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5 × 6 × . . . × 9999 × 10000 2 × 4 × 6 × 8 × 10 × . . . × 9998 × 10000 = 1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × 5... × 10000 2 1 × 2 2 × 2 3 × 2 4 × 2 5... × 2 5000 = 10000 ! 2 5000 5000 ! \begin{aligned} 1\times 3\times 5\times 7\times 9... \times 9999 & = \frac {1\times {\color{#3D99F6}2} \times 3 \times {\color{#D61F06}4} \times 5 \times{\color{#3D99F6}6} \times ...\times 9999 \times {\color{#D61F06}10000}} {{\color{#3D99F6} 2}\times {\color{#D61F06} 4}\times {\color{#3D99F6} 6} \times {\color{#D61F06} 8} \times {\color{#3D99F6} 10} \times... \times {\color{#3D99F6} 9998} \times \color{#D61F06} {10000}} \\ & = \frac {1\times 2\times 3\times 4\times 5... \times10000} {2\cdot{} 1 \times 2\cdot{} 2 \times 2\cdot{}3 \times 2\cdot{} 4 \times 2\cdot{} 5... \times 2\cdot{} 5000} \\ & = \boxed{\dfrac {10000!}{2^{5000}5000!} } \end{aligned}

nice sir. I liked it

Zeeshan Ali - 6 years, 2 months ago

Very nice solution sir !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Abhisek Mohanty - 6 years, 2 months ago

nice solution sir....

Vinay Kotrannavar - 5 years, 5 months ago

Nice solution

Aaryan Saha - 5 years ago

Same Method applied =D ..

Hrishik Mukherjee - 6 years, 2 months ago

We share same logic sir

Gaurav Pawar - 4 years, 1 month ago

great solution

Ehsan Rahmatian - 4 years ago

Simple as is, perfect

Gürkan Gültekin - 3 years, 7 months ago

I don't understand how the first step is made

Yakov Reznikov - 3 years, 3 months ago

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The even terms in the nominator is cancelled by the corresponding even terms in the denominator. I have added the cancellation marks. Hope that it helps.

Chew-Seong Cheong - 3 years, 3 months ago

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Ahhhhh it all makes sense now. Thank you :)

Yakov Reznikov - 3 years, 3 months ago

"BRILLIANT" solution sir..

ommkar priyadarshi - 5 years, 2 months ago

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Hello Ommkar Priyadarshi !

Aniruddha Bagchi - 5 years, 2 months ago

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Extremely happy to have you here..

Aniruddha Bagchi - 5 years, 2 months ago

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@Aniruddha Bagchi thanks bro

ommkar priyadarshi - 5 years ago
Danish Ahmed
Mar 25, 2015

1 3 5 9999 1 \cdot 3 \cdot 5 \cdots 9999

= 1 2 3 4 10000 2 4 6 10000 = \dfrac{1 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdot 4 \cdots 10000}{2 \cdot 4 \cdot 6 \cdots 10000}

= 10000 ! 2 5000 1 2 3 5000 = \dfrac{10000!}{2^{5000} \cdot 1 \cdot 2 \cdot 3 \cdots 5000}

= 10000 ! 2 5000 5000 ! = \dfrac{10000!}{2^{5000}\cdot5000!}

Haitam Barez
Mar 20, 2016

Well I did something else, I tried it for 10. So the positive odd integers less than 10 are 1,3,5,7 and 9 and their product is 945. Then I tried all the possible solutions by replacing 10000! by 10! and 9999! by 9! and so on, so when I calculated 10!/ 2^5 * 5! it gave me 945 so I deduced it will be the same for 10000 ....

I did the same

Hakan Mendeş - 5 years, 1 month ago

Bravo! Smart move

Muhammed Kaif Vittal - 4 years, 4 months ago

That's an excellent method. Well done.

Erik Kaiser - 4 years, 1 month ago

Yeah it's a better method to avoid confusion

Tanav Aggarwal - 4 years ago

You indeed are a clever mind!

Us Arora - 3 years, 12 months ago

I don't get it what are u ment to do is there um u know similar explanation by the way very smart the way u got it right

Trendy clear - 3 years, 10 months ago
Poh Seng Tan
Apr 27, 2018

I tried formula in the second answer to find the product of all positive odd integers less than 4 and found that it works

This second formula also worked for all positive odd integers less 6, 8,10,12 and 14.

Then I noticed that 1x3x5x7x9x11x13x...x47x49 = (1x 2 x3x 4 x5x 6 x7x...x 50 )/( 2x4x6x8x10x...x50 )

It works for 16,18,20,22,24,26,28,30,32,34,36,38,40,42,44,46,48,52,54,56,58,60,62,64 and 66 so it must work for 10000.

So, 1x3x5x7x...x9999 = (1x2x3x4x5x...x10000)/(2x4x6x8x...10000) =10000!/(2^5000x5000!)

I may well be missing something, but why did you stop with 66 in the examples you gave. There was once a formula proposed for generating prime numbers which worked beautifully up to 41, and then failed spectacularly, giving a perfect square for the answer. Is there some particular significance to 66?

Don Weingarten - 2 years, 4 months ago

er...not really though

Poh Seng Tan - 1 year, 11 months ago

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