@Ketan: I also know that method which u r talking about . find the prime factors divide by1019. . then taking the last digit of the remaining factors, multiplying them and getting the last digit of the product as the answer to the q.
4 Answers
Ketan Chandak
·2012-01-10 08:02:00
i knw a method...
first find all the prime factors of the required no nd den multiply the units digit of each of the factors....
but dats too tedius.....ne better method?
Sigma
·2012-01-10 20:00:21
h4hemang
·2012-01-10 21:06:21
hmmm.
take modulo 10 after removing the powers of 10.
visit this link.
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath489.htm
here is a past year problem in AMC and its solution.
http://www.artofproblemsolving.com/Wiki/index.php/2010_AMC_10A_Problems/Problem_24