Bunuel wrote:
Official Solution:
Note that:
A. The factorial of a negative number is undefined.
B. 0!=1.
C. Only two factorials are odd: 0!=1 and 1!=1.
D. Factorial of a number which is prime is 2!=2.
(1) The median of {a!, b!, c!} is an odd number. This implies that b!=odd. Thus b is 0 or 1. But if b=0, then a is a negative number, so in this case a! is not defined. Therefore a=0 and b=1, so the set is {0!, 1!, c!}={1, 1, c!}. Now, if c=2, then the answer is YES but if c is any other number then the answer is NO. Not sufficient.
(2) c! is a prime number. This implies that c=2. Not sufficient.
(1)+(2) From above we have that a=0, b=1 and c=2, thus the answer to the question is YES. Sufficient.
Answer: C
I don't quite agree with the solution here. Using option (2) , I come up with the number c =2 , since none of the numbers can be negative, we are left with only 0 and 1, here in the problem statement , it is given that a<b<c , hence a has to take 0 and b has to take 1