2017 AMC 8 Problems/Problem 19
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[hide]Problem
For any positive integer , the notation
denotes the product of the integers
through
. What is the largest integer
for which
is a factor of the sum
?
Solution 1
Factoring out , we have
, which is
. Next,
has
factors of
. The
is because of all the multiples of
.The
is because of all the multiples of
. Now,
has
factors of
, so there are a total of
factors of
.
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Solution 2
Also, keep in mind that the number of ’s in
is the same as the number of trailing zeros. The number of zeros is
, which means we need pairs of
’s and
’s; we know there will be many more
’s, so we seek to find the number of
’s in
, which the solution tells us. And, that is
factors of
.
has
trailing zeros, so it has
factors of
and
.
~CHECKMATE2021
Solution 3
We can first factor a out of the $
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