Consider the following pattern:
5 1 = 5 2 = 5 3 = 5 4 = 5 2 5 1 2 5 6 2 5
What is the units digit of 5 2 5 ?
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We shall proceed to overkill this problem by induction.
Base case: 5 1 = 5 , which ends in a digit of 5 .
Induction step: we assume 5 k has a units digit of 5 . This means that we can express it as 1 0 a + 5 , where a is a positive integer. We see that 5 k + 1 = 5 k × 5 = ( 1 0 a + 5 ) × 5 = 5 0 a × 2 5 = 1 0 ( 5 a + 2 ) + 5
We now substitute 5 a + 2 = b . Clearly, since a is a positive integer, b is also a positive integer. Thus, 1 0 b + 5 also has a units digit of 5 , and we are done. □ .
Look at the last digit and how it changes. Keep going. It doesnt change. It is still 5.
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.
its obvious that the unit will be 5 if we'll multiply 5 by any of the # in power of 5.....
so ans= 5
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5 times 5, the units digit will always be 5. And if it times 5 again, the units stay the same.