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Grade 12Algebra

number of ways we can arrange 1,2,3,4,...8 such that the product of any five consecutive position is divisible by 5

Profile image of Bharadwaj Varma
9 Years agoGrade 12
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Profile image of Vikas TU
9 Years ago
Hint: 
First find out the possible ways of product of five numbers havinng last digit 0 or 5 .
u will have to check this first.
then find the consecutiveness order .
Profile image of mycroft holmes
9 Years ago
If 5 is placed in the 4th or 5th place, then the product of any 5 consecutively placed numbers will be divisible by 5. So, for 5, we have two choices of placement, and corresponding to each, the other digits can be permuted in 7! ways.
 
Hence, total number of ways = 2 X 7! = 10080