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1^1+2^2+3^3+...+10^10 is divided by 5. What is the [#permalink]
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1^1+2^2+3^3+...+10^10 is divided by 5. What is the remainder?
A) 1
B) 2
C) 3
D) 4
E) 0
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1+4+7+6+5+6+3+6+9+0
47.
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While there's undoubtedly a more elegant way, brute force was quick enough.
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B) 2 Stoolfi is it 47 or 37 becoz I am getting 37 but anyways the remainder is 2 . 1+4+7+6+5+9+4+1+0 = 37/5 = 2
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stoolfi wrote: 1+4+7+6+5+6+3+6+9+0
47.
2.
While there's undoubtedly a more elegant way, brute force was quick enough.
Brute force is fine for this problem so long as you understand the principle behind what you are doing. Good job.
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can you explain what are you doing here?
i get a remainder of 4? i dont understand how you got 7 for 3^3?
rakesh1239 wrote: B) 2 Stoolfi is it 47 or 37 becoz I am getting 37 but anyways the remainder is 2 . 1+4+7+6+5+9+4+1+0 = 37/5 = 2
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fresinha12 wrote: can you explain what are you doing here? i get a remainder of 4? i dont understand how you got 7 for 3^3? rakesh1239 wrote: B) 2 Stoolfi is it 47 or 37 becoz I am getting 37 but anyways the remainder is 2 . 1+4+7+6+5+9+4+1+0 = 37/5 = 2 3^3 = 2 7
All you care for is the units digit and you see the pattern.
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Paul..u r right...i am just concerned that how I could do this in 2-3 minutes? I took me about 5-6 minutes, and i still made a mistake, is there a short cut to these unit digit problems,
Paul wrote: fresinha12 wrote: can you explain what are you doing here? i get a remainder of 4? i dont understand how you got 7 for 3^3? rakesh1239 wrote: B) 2 Stoolfi is it 47 or 37 becoz I am getting 37 but anyways the remainder is 2 . 1+4+7+6+5+9+4+1+0 = 37/5 = 2 3^3 = 2 7All you care for is the units digit and you see the pattern. |
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With practice, a problem like this should take you about 1 min. You will see, practice makes perfect. Developing a familiarity with many different type of GMAT problems will make you find the right way to approach it more quickly. The solving part should only take a minute though 
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yeah you are right...but i usually make mistakes when I have a lot of calculations to do....one other number whos digit is hard to calculate is 7...
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AkamaiBrah wrote: stoolfi wrote: 1+4+7+6+5+6+3+6+9+0
47.
2.
While there's undoubtedly a more elegant way, brute force was quick enough. Brute force is fine for this problem so long as you understand the principle behind what you are doing. Good job. AkamaiBrah and Paul,
this is really a good question. is there any other short-cut way of solving problems like this?
MA
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I believe there is another method explained by another member before but I would stick to the pattern method. It really does not take much time and with practice, a problem like this could be done within 1 min, never mind 2 minutes.
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I would look for a pattern in the last digit (without doing the multiplications for large n say 7^7 or 9^9):
1^1 = 1
2^(2, 4, 6, or 8) = 4, 6, 6, or 6 resp.
3^3 = 7
5^5 = 5
7^7 = 3
9^9 = 9
10^10 = 0
Sum = 47; remainder 2.
Brute force will also do for this problem .
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Hi
The units digits of numbers ending with the following numbers have a cyclicity of 4
numbers ending in 2, 3, 7 and 8
2^1 = 2
2^2 = 4
2^3 = 8
2^4 = 16
2^5 = 32
2^6 = 64 and so on. i.e., every 4th power has the same units digit. The same holds for 3, 7 and 8.
The units digits of numbers ending in 4 and 9 (both are perfect squares) has a cyclicity of 2
4^1 = 4
4^2 = 16
4^3 = 64
4^4 = 256 and so on.
The units digits of numbers ending in 0, 1, 5, 6 all end in 0, 1, 5, and 6 respectively.
this should help solve the above problem quickly
Manish
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