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Digital Factorial (Posted on 2013-07-01) Difficulty: 2 of 5
21!=510909x21y1709440000

Without calculating 21!, what are the digits marked x and y?

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In 510909x21y1709440000 the given odd positions, starting counting at the left with 5 in position 1, add up to 11 and the given even positions add up to 41, for a total of 52. The difference between all the even digits and all the odd digits must be a multiple of 11 as 21! is a multiple of 11. Before x and y are filled in, the difference is 41-11=30, so we need to increase the difference by 3 mod 11. We can't increase the difference by 14 or more, so the difference y-x must be 3.

21! is also divisible by 9, so the sum of the digits must be congruent to 0 mod 9. Without the x and y the total is 52, which is congruent to 7, so we need to add 2 to the sum mod 9.

The only pair of digits that satisfy both of these is (x,y) = (4,7).



  Posted by Charlie on 2013-07-01 14:23:57
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