2014 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 17
Problem 17
What is the greatest power of that is a factor of ?
Solution
We begin by factoring the out. This leaves us with . We factor the difference of squares, leaving us with . We note that for all powers of 5 more than two, it ends in ... Thus, would end in ... and thus would contribute one power of two to the answer, but not more. We can continue to factor as a difference of cubes, leaving us with times an odd number. ends in ..., contributing two powers of two to the final result. Adding these extra 3 power of two to the original 1002 factored out, we obtain the final answer of .
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