The Best Common Sense Problem

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I was going to write a differential equations problem but then someone angered me.I'm trying to add more complexity to my problems so leave some constructive feedback.The expected value of the product of the numbers on two dice with ten sides is n.If z 8 n z^{8n} = z 2 z^2 for some complex number z and the imaginary part of z is s i n ( π K / m ) sin({\pi}K/m) .Find m.


The answer is 120.

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Aaryan Vaishya
Sep 21, 2019

First let's develop a solution for any given n.If z 8 n z^{8n} = z 2 z^2 then z 8 n 2 z^{8n-2} = 1, Meaning that we can use the (theorem unlisted because of you and you know who you are(Ash Ketchum)).This means that the imaginary part of z is s i n ( 2 K π / 8 n 2 ) sin(2K{\pi}/8n-2) .Now we can see that the m =4n-1.Now n is simply the sum of all the entries on a 10x10 multiplication grid/100.There is a simple trick we can use to put things in place.The first column is 1(1+2+3+4+5...)and the second is 2(1+2+3+4..) all the way up to 10. we can factor the parentheses out and get (1+2+3+4+5...)(1+2+3+4+5...)=( 1 1 2 11^2 * 1 0 2 10^2 )/4 = 3025.Dividing by 100 we have (30.25).(30.25) x 4 -1 =120 our answer.

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