2022 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 19
Problem
Define 
as the least common multiple of all the integers from 
to 
inclusive. There is a unique integer 
such that
What is the remainder when is divided by 
?
Solution
Notice that 
contains the highest power of every prime below . Thus, 
.
When writing the sum under a common fraction, we multiply the denominators by divided by each denominator. However, since is a multiple of , all terms will be a multiple of until we divide out , and the only term that will do this is 
. Thus, the remainder of all other terms when divided by will be 
, so the problem is essentially asking us what the remainder of 
divided by is. This is equivalent to finding the remainder of 
divided by .
We use modular arithmetic to simplify our answer:
This is congruent to 
Evaluating, we get: ![\[-45 \cdot 7 \cdot 11 \cdot 13 \pmod{17} \cong 6 \cdot 7 \cdot 11 \cdot 13 \pmod{17}\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/e/0/4/e0456a63e7ab118e7836d5a737ef89e63ecfe5fc.png)
![\[\cong 42 \cdot 11 cdot 13 \pmod{17} \cong 8 \cdot 11 \cdot 13 \pmod{17}\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/b/8/f/b8ff01e7b245d1281c0198b37310d78c382dab01.png)
![\[\cong 88 \cdot 13 \pmod{17} \cong 3 \cdot 13 \pmod{17}\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/c/3/a/c3a4d2bbc368de5ab4296b295a069cea117c7335.png)
![\[\cong 39 \pmod{17} \cong 5\pmod{17}\]](http://latex.artofproblemsolving.com/0/8/3/083079a27a2006775963764c7d928ec4593009de.png)
Therefore the remainder is 
and the answer is 
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