What is the remainder left when 8 a − 6 2 b is divided by 9?
Where a = 2n and b = 2n+1 .
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Nice approach, have a look at this by modular arithmetic.
8 ≡ − 1 ( m o d 9 ) & 6 2 ≡ − 1 ( m o d 9 ) .
8 2 n ≡ ( − 1 ) 2 n ≡ 1 ( m o d 9 ) & 6 2 2 n + 1 ≡ ( − 1 ) 2 n + 1 ≡ − 1 ( m o d 9 )
Subtracting the results we get,
8 2 n − 6 2 2 n + 1 ≡ 1 − ( − 1 ) ≡ 2 ( m o d 9 )
Remainder is 9
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8 2 n − 6 2 2 n + 1 = 6 4 n − 6 2 2 n + 1 = ( 6 3 + 1 ) n − ( 6 3 − 1 ) 2 n + 1 ------------ (1)
Applying Binomial expansion for (1) we observe that every term has 63 i.e, is divisible by 9 except
n C n ∗ 1 n − ( 2 n + 1 ) C ( 2 n + 1 ) ∗ ( − 1 ) 2 n + 1 = 1 + 1 = 2