2023 AMC 12A Problems/Problem 4

The following problem is from both the 2023 AMC 10A #5 and 2023 AMC 12A #4, so both problems redirect to this page.

1 Problem
2 Solution 1
3 Solution 2 (Only if you don't know how to do the rest of the problems and have about 20 minutes left, IT IS recommended)
4 Solution 3 (Similar to Solution 1)
5 Video Solution by Little Fermat
6 Video Solution by Math-X (First understand the problem!!!)
7 Video Solution (easy to digest) by Power Solve
8 Video Solution by CosineMethod [🔥Fast and Easy🔥]
9 Video Solution
10 Video Solution (⚡ Under 2 min ⚡)
11 See Also

Problem

How many digits are in the base-ten representation of $8^5 \cdot 5^{10} \cdot 15^5$ ?

$\textbf{(A)}~14\qquad\textbf{(B)}~15\qquad\textbf{(C)}~16\qquad\textbf{(D)}~17\qquad\textbf{(E)}~18\qquad$

Solution 1

Prime factorizing this gives us $2^{15}\cdot3^{5}\cdot5^{15}=10^{15}\cdot3^5=243\cdot10^{15}$ .

$10^{15}$ has $16$ digits and $243$ = $2.43*10^{2}$ gives us $3$ more digits. $16+2=\text{\boxed{\textbf{(E) }18}}$

$2.43*10^{17}$ has $18$ digits

~zhenghua

Solution 2 (Only if you don't know how to do the rest of the problems and have about 20 minutes left, IT IS recommended)

Multiplying it out, we get that $8^5 \cdot 5^{10} \cdot 15^5 = 243000000000000000$ . Counting, we have the answer is $\text{\boxed{\textbf{(E) }18}}$ ~andliu766

Solution 3 (Similar to Solution 1)

All the exponents have a common factor of $5$ which we can factor out. This leaves us with $(8 \cdot 5^2 \cdot 15)^5 = (3000)^5 = (3 \cdot 1000)^5$ . We can then distribute the power leaving us with $3^5 \cdot 10^{3 \cdot 5} = 243 \cdot 10^{15}$ . This would be $243$ followed by $15$ zeros resulting in our answer being $15+3=\text{\boxed{\textbf{(E)}18}}$

~leon_0iler

Video Solution by Little Fermat

https://youtu.be/h2Pf2hvF1wE?si=mJjq7vPLptdSe0AJ&t=872 ~little-fermat

Video Solution by Math-X (First understand the problem!!!)

https://youtu.be/GP-DYudh5qU?si=1RDs-j8Cedw02bID&t=983

Video Solution (easy to digest) by Power Solve

https://youtu.be/Od1Spf3TDBs

Video Solution by CosineMethod [🔥Fast and Easy🔥]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laHiorWO1zo

Video Solution

https://youtu.be/MFPSxqtguQo

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Video Solution (⚡ Under 2 min ⚡)

https://youtu.be/Xy8vyymlPBg

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2023 AMC 10A (Problems • Answer Key • Resources)
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