What remains?

What is the remainder left when 8 a 6 2 b 8^a - 62^b is divided by 9?

Where a = 2n and b = 2n+1 .


The answer is 2.

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2 solutions

Rohan Tammara
Mar 28, 2016

8 2 n 6 2 2 n + 1 8^{2n} - 62^{2n+1} = 6 4 n 6 2 2 n + 1 = ( 63 + 1 ) n ( 63 1 ) 2 n + 1 64^n - 62^{2n+1} = (63+1)^n - (63-1)^{2n+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 nCn*1^n - (2n+1)C(2n+1)*(-1)^{2n+1} = 1+1 = 2

Nice approach, have a look at this by modular arithmetic.

8 1 ( m o d 9 ) 8\equiv-1(mod9) & 62 1 ( m o d 9 ) 62\equiv-1(mod9) .

8 2 n ( 1 ) 2 n 1 ( m o d 9 ) 8^{2n}\equiv(-1)^{2n}\equiv1(mod9) & 6 2 2 n + 1 ( 1 ) 2 n + 1 1 ( m o d 9 ) 62^{2n+1}\equiv(-1)^{2n+1}\equiv-1(mod9)

Subtracting the results we get,

8 2 n 6 2 2 n + 1 1 ( 1 ) 2 ( m o d 9 ) 8^{2n}-62^{2n+1}\equiv1-(-1)\equiv2(mod9)

Remainder is 9 \boxed{9}

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