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Review: Divisibility of a Large Number
Explanation
This question uses factorial notation. ,
all the way down to 1. So x is that
large product plus 11. Let's consider the simplest case from the answer
choices, x divided by 11:
If this thing is an integer, than x is divisible by 11. It's equal to
The second term here becomes one. The first one is an
integer. In fact, is divisible by every integer from 1 to 100,
because it contains all of them as a factor. So is an integer, and x is divisible by 11. Similar logic shows that the other answer
choices do not yield integers.
The correct answer is (A).
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