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What is the trailing number of zeros of the product 25 × 26 × 27 × × 50 25\times26\times27\times\cdots\times50 ?


The answer is 8.

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Zyberg Nee
Jun 27, 2016

The expression can be rewritten as: 50 ! 24 ! \frac{50!}{24!} , where ! ! denotes factorial.

Since zero is just a power of 10, we can count fives (in this expression there are more twos than fives).

Counting zeros of 50 ! 50! we have: 50 5 + 50 25 = 10 + 2 = 12 \left\lfloor\frac{50}{5}\right\rfloor + \left\lfloor\frac{50}{25}\right\rfloor = 10 + 2 = 12 .

Counting zeros of 24 ! 24! we have: 24 5 = 4 \left\lfloor\frac{24}{5}\right\rfloor = 4

The fraction can be rewritten again as a 1 0 12 b 1 0 4 = a 1 0 8 b \frac{a \cdot 10^{12}}{b \cdot 10^4} = \frac{a \cdot 10^{8}}{b} where a a and b b are some natural numbers (in other words - factorials without any powers of five and some powers of two).

Since b b divides a a , the number of zeros is 8 \boxed{8} .

Nice solution! I guess you have a typo on the 2nd line......more twos than fives.

展豪 張 - 4 years, 11 months ago

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