2019 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 17
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What is the value of the product
Solution 1 (Telescoping)
We rewrite:
The middle terms cancel, leaving us with
Solution 2
If you calculate the first few values of the equation, all of the values tend to close to , but are not equal to it. The answer closest to but not equal to it is .
Solution 3
Rewriting the numerator and the denominator, we get . We can simplify by canceling 99! on both sides, leaving us with: We rewrite as and cancel , which gets .
Solution 4
Obviously all of the terms are less than one by difference of squares, so we eliminate options and . is too close to one to be possible, and as stated in Solution 2 it gets close to but never actually becomes . Therefore, by process of elimination we get that the answer is .
Video Solution 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPQmvyVyvaM
Associated video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffHl1dAjs7g&list=PLLCzevlMcsWNBsdpItBT4r7Pa8cZb6Viu&index=1
~ MathEx
Video Solution 2
Solution detailing how to solve the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VezsRMJvGPs&list=PLbhMrFqoXXwmwbk2CWeYOYPRbGtmdPUhL&index=18
Video Solution 3
~savannahsolver
See Also
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