2000 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 9

Problem

Three-digit powers of $2$ and $5$ are used in this cross-number puzzle. What is the only possible digit for the outlined square?

\[\begin{tabular}{lcl}
\textbf{ACROSS} & & \textbf{DOWN} \\
\textbf{2}. 2^m & & \textbf{1}. 5^n
\end{tabular}\] (Error compiling LaTeX. Unknown error_msg)

$[asy] draw((0,-1)--(1,-1)--(1,2)--(0,2)--cycle); draw((0,1)--(3,1)--(3,0)--(0,0)); draw((3,0)--(2,0)--(2,1)--(3,1)--cycle,linewidth(1)); label("$1$",(0,2),SE); label("$2$",(0,1),SE); [/asy]$

$\text{(A)}\ 0 \qquad \text{(B)}\ 2 \qquad \text{(C)}\ 4 \qquad \text{(D)}\ 6 \qquad \text{(E)}\ 8$

Solution

The $3$ -digit powers of $5$ are $125$ and $625$ , so space $2$ is filled with a $2$ . The only $3$ -digit power of $2$ beginning with $2$ is $256$ , so the outlined block is filled with a $\boxed{\text{(D) 6}}$ .

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