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N is a 7-digit positive integer whose product of the digits is 20160.

Determine the probability that the sum of the digits of N is a perfect square.

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Solution computer solution | Comment 4 of 5 |
Such 7-digit integers don't contain a zero, otherwise the product of the digits would be zero. The below table lists the 14 possible combinations of digits that lead to that product, followed by the number of ways those digits can be arranged to form such a number; not all these are the same as some have double or triple occurrences of one or more of the same digits.
 
To the right of the number of ways of arranging them, appears the sum of the digits, and then the square root of that sum to easily see that only one if them is a perfect square -- 36, for the combination 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9. Having no duplicates it makes up the arrangement the maximum, 5040, number of times.  The total of the "ways" column is 28,560 so the probability that a given one of such numbers will have a sod that's a perfect square, that is, 36, is 5040/28560 = 3/17 ~=  0.176470588235294.

    List of     Unique
     digits     Perms  sod  square root of sod
 1 1 5 7 8 8 9   1260   39  6.244997998398
 1 2 4 5 7 8 9   5040   36  6.000000000000
 1 2 5 6 6 7 8   2520   35  5.916079783100
 1 3 3 5 7 8 8   1260   35  5.916079783100
 1 3 4 5 6 7 8   5040   34  5.830951894845
 1 4 4 4 5 7 9    840   34  5.830951894845
 1 4 4 5 6 6 7   1260   33  5.744562646538
 2 2 2 5 7 8 9    840   35  5.916079783100
 2 2 3 5 6 7 8   2520   33  5.744562646538
 2 2 4 4 5 7 9   1260   33  5.744562646538
 2 2 4 5 6 6 7   1260   32  5.656854249492
 2 3 3 4 5 7 8   2520   32  5.656854249492
 2 3 4 4 5 6 7   2520   31  5.567764362830
 3 3 4 4 4 5 7    420   30  5.477225575052
                -----
                28560

>> 504/2856
ans =
         0.176470588235294
>> sym(504/2856)
ans =
3/17
>> 
 
The program:

clearvars,clc
global factList remain currfact
factList=[]; currfact=[]; 
remain=20160;
addon;

totup=0;
for i=1:size(factList,1)
  s=sum(factList(i,:));
  sr=sqrt(s);
  p=uniqueperms(factList(i,:));
  totup=totup+length(p);
  fprintf('%2d',factList(i,:));
  fprintf('%7d',length(p));
  fprintf('%5d %15.12f\n' ,s,sr);
end
disp(totup);
disp(length(factList));

function addon()
  global factList remain currfact
  if isempty(currfact)
    st=1;
  else
    st=currfact(end);
  end
  for newdig=st:9
   if mod(remain,newdig)==0
    currfact=[currfact newdig];
    remain=remain/newdig;
    
    if length(currfact)<7
      addon
    else
      if remain==1
        factList=[factList; currfact];
      end
    end
    
    remain=remain*newdig;
    currfact=currfact(1:end-1);
   end 
  end
end


  Posted by Charlie on 2022-08-19 10:55:53
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