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Problem

The function $f$ is given by the table

$\begin{tabular}{|c||c|c|c|c|c|} \hline x & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 5 \\ \hline f(x) & 4 & 1 & 3 & 5 & 2 \\ \hline \end{tabular}$

If $u_0=4$ and $u_{n+1} = f(u_n)$ for $n \ge 0$ , find $u_{2002}$

$\text{(A) }1 \qquad \text{(B) }2 \qquad \text{(C) }3 \qquad \text{(D) }4 \qquad \text{(E) }5$

Solution

If $\log_{b} 729 = n$ , then $b^n = 729$ . Since $729 = 3^6$ , $b$ must be $3$ to some factor of 6. Thus, there are four (3, 9, 27, 729) possible values of $b \Longrightarrow \boxed{\mathrm{E}}$ .

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