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Algebra Level 2

Which is the last digit of 1!+2!+3!+4!+.....+100!


The answer is 3.

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2 solutions

Raghunathan N.
Nov 27, 2014

simple! only the first four terms do matter, to get the last digit - since from 5! last digit is 0.

Therefore, last digit is the last digit of 1 + 2 + 6 + 24 i.e. 3.

I like the simple!

Alex Jin - 6 years, 1 month ago
Utsav Playz
Feb 4, 2021

Notice that for n 5 n \geq 5 , n ! n! has at least a trailing zero, which does not affect the unit digit of the whole sum.

Therefore, we only need to determine the unit digit of the sum of n ! n! , where 1 n < 5 1 \leq n < 5 to obtain the unit digit of n = 1 100 n ! \displaystyle \sum_{n=1}^{100} n!

Thus,

1 ! + 2 ! + 3 ! + 4 ! \Rightarrow 1! + 2! + 3! + 4!

= 1 + 2 + 6 + 24 = 33 = 1 + 2 + 6 + 24 = 33

3 \Leftrightarrow \boxed 3 is the unit digit of the above sum.

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