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It sounds logical however de right answer is D

I will ask the teacher tomorrow and I let you know crapp I almost had the whole homework right

Oops, I got it. I read the question incorrectly, and calculated the last digit of the product of the whole series. I'm sure my GMAT score would be reduced due to this habit of mine.

Anyway, the series would be 4, 8, 16, 32, ..4, ..8, ..6, ..2 and so on
That means, the last digit of every 4th term is 2.

The last digit for 79th term would be 6 and 80th term would be 2
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Btw, using my scientific calculator just calculated the value of 79th term of the geometric series, using the formula
nth term = ar^(n-1)

79th term = 1208925819614629174706176
so last digit is 6 only :-D
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I finally found out how to solve this one

Well you can see the pattern

4 first
8 second
16 third
32 fourth

4 fifth

Well you divide 79 / 4

76 / 4 = 19 so in the secuence you will Complete the fourth numbers

and you have a remainder of three so you count

first is 4, second is 8 and the third is 6

this was fun though
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6 is the correct answer.



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