math musing

maths musing is a section in mathematics today(mtg magazine) which has some good iit related mathematics question

i have created a pdf of this section and uploaded here ...

http://www.scribd.com/doc/56405508/Math-Musing

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aditya ravichandran ·

we can also discuss these problems here [1]

my query :

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Shubhodip ·

dump those scrary notations and write completely and then cross-multiply.

put x = -r , and u will get Ar

eg- after cross-multiplying if u put x = -3 u will get A3= (-1)37! 3!

this way u will get Ar = (-1)rr!(10-r)! = (-1)r 10Cr10!

the rest part is easy

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aditya ravichandran ·

thats right but how to find

[10!210]

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Vivek @ Born this Way ·

See,

10! = 28 * 34 * 52 * 7

Therefore, Answer (A)

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aditya ravichandran ·

lol ,manually calculate tho ho jayega

i meant ,is there any generalised way ???

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nabarun deb ·

Hey ......... I am a new follower of Mathematics today .......... Can some1 pls tell me where I should send the Math Musing solutions to .......... Shall I e-mail or send via post ........... nd where should I send it ???????

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nabarun deb ·

@Aditya .............. I don't think there's any generalised way to evaluate n!2n . The only possible result I think is that the given expression cannot be an integer .............

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