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Consider the following pattern:

5 1 = 5 5 2 = 25 5 3 = 125 5 4 = 625 \begin{array} {l r} \\ 5 ^ 1 = & 5 \\ 5^2 = & 25 \\ 5^3 = & 125 \\ 5^4 = & 625 \\ \end{array}

What is the units digit of 5 25 5^{25} ?


The answer is 5.

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6 solutions

Nurin Zunah
Oct 13, 2013

5 times 5, the units digit will always be 5. And if it times 5 again, the units stay the same.

Daniel Liu
May 2, 2014

We shall proceed to overkill this problem by induction.

Base case: 5 1 = 5 5^1=5 , which ends in a digit of 5 5 .

Induction step: we assume 5 k 5^k has a units digit of 5 5 . This means that we can express it as 10 a + 5 10a+5 , where a a is a positive integer. We see that 5 k + 1 = 5 k × 5 = ( 10 a + 5 ) × 5 = 50 a × 25 = 10 ( 5 a + 2 ) + 5 \begin{aligned}5^{k+1}&=5^{k}\times 5 \\ &= (10a+5)\times 5\\ &=50a\times 25\\ &= 10(5a+2)+5\end{aligned}

We now substitute 5 a + 2 = b 5a+2=b . Clearly, since a a is a positive integer, b b is also a positive integer. Thus, 10 b + 5 10b+5 also has a units digit of 5 5 , and we are done. \Box .

Joshua Wardle
Oct 15, 2013

Look at the last digit and how it changes. Keep going. It doesnt change. It is still 5.

Mohammad Fiyaz
Feb 20, 2014

unit digit always be 5

becuase each time we multiply the results with 5 and unit digit of the result always be 5. .we can see this in the above pattern.

Thus, 5 * 5 = 25 unit digit always be 5.

HamzAh Rana
Oct 19, 2013

its obvious that the unit will be 5 if we'll multiply 5 by any of the # in power of 5.....

so ans= 5

Savita Agrawal
Oct 15, 2013

5^{25}=3125^{5}

How does that help?

Calvin Lin Staff - 7 years, 7 months ago

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