The bigger factorial mess!

Find the integer solution to the following:

( 100 ! + 99 ! ) ( 98 ! + 97 ! ) ( 96 ! + 95 ! ) . . . . . ( 4 ! + 3 ! ) ( 2 ! + 1 ! ) ( 100 ! 99 ! ) ( 98 ! 97 ! ) ( 96 ! 95 ! ) . . . . . ( 4 ! 3 ! ) ( 2 ! 1 ! ) \large \dfrac{\color{grey}(100! + 99!)(98! + 97!)(96! + 95!) ..... (4! + 3!)(2! + 1!)}{\color{#69047E}(100! - 99!)(98! - 97!)(96! - 95!).....(4! -3!)(2! - 1!)}


You may try out The easy version


The answer is 101.

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3 solutions

Sergio Melo
Dec 27, 2019

We can generalize the answer with this: Let n n be the largest number of a fraction like this

Where the numbers are consecutive. We can factor the terms of each product considering that n ! = n ( n 1 ) ! n!=n(n-1)! and ( n k ) ! = ( n k ) ( n k 1 ) ! (n-k)!=(n-k)(n-k-1)! with k Z k\in Z and 0 < k < n 0<k<n , with this and simplifying the fraction that equals to

Given that the fraction equals n + 1 n+1 we can solve this problem easily. In this case, n = 100 n=100 and the fraction have consecutive numbers (without the factorial), so the answer must be n + 1 = 100 + 1 = 101 n+1=100+1=101

Oon Han
Nov 12, 2017

Answer is 100 + 1 = 101

Hana Wehbi
Nov 11, 2017

Check my solution on the easy version, we can conclude that the asnwer is going to be 100 + 1 = 101 100+1=101

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