A student erases a few of them, and instead writes the digit(s) of their product. (For example if he erases 4, 3 and 7 he would write the digits 8 and 4 since 4 * 3 * 7 = 84.) He also writes a few other random digits on the board.

He repeats this process until only one digit remains on the board. What is this digit and why?

I agree with the idea of the process being infinite, but I also agree that a student cannot be 100% random. I also believe that the student will start add zeroes "randomly" as the review the results.

Posted by cges on 2002-12-11 06:24:21