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Revision as of 12:13, 14 August 2019
Problem
What is the largest -digit prime factor of the integer
?
Solution
Expanding the binomial coefficient, we get . Let the required prime be
; then
. If
, then the factor of
appears twice in the denominator. Thus, we need
to appear as a factor at least three times in the numerator, so
. The largest such prime is
, which is our answer.
Solution 2: Clarification of Solution 1
We know that $$ (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg){200\choose100}=\frac{200!}{100!100!}
See Also
1983 AIME (Problems • Answer Key • Resources) | ||
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