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Which of the following correctly expresses the product of all the positive odd integers less than 104?

10,0005
⬬ 2 5,000
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10,000!
⬬ 2 101 ×5,000!
31%

5,000!
⬬ 2 100
14%

2,000!
⬬ 2 500
5%

10,000!
$ 2 5,000 ×5,000!
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The product of all the odd integers less than 10,000 can be expressed as:

1 x 3 x 5 x 7 x 9 x 11 x 13… x 9,999

1× 2 ×3× 4 ×5× 6 × 8 ...× 10,000

This can be expressed as = 1 × 3 × 5... × 9, 999 . We see that we are canceling out the
2 × 4 × 6 × 8 ×...× 10,000
even numbers, from 2 to 10,000 in the numerator. Let’s expand on this idea further by looking more closely at the
uncanceled fraction:

1×2×3×4×5×6×...×10,000
2×4×6×8×...×10,000

Notice that in the denominator each of the 5,000 numbers, being even, can be re-expressed as 2 times some number,
such as:

2×1=2
2×2=4
2×3=6
2×4=8
...
2 × 5, 000 = 10, 000

Thus, we can re-express the denominator of the fraction as:

1×2×3×4×5×6×...×10,000
(2×1)×(2×2)×(2×3)×(2×4)×...×(2×5,000)

Notice that from 2 × 1 to 2 × 5,000 we have five thousand 2’s, so we can combine those 2’s to give us 25000.

Now we can express the denominator as 2 5,000 (1 × 2 × 3 × 4 × ... × 5, 000) , so we now have:

1×2×3×4×5×6×...×10,000 10,000!
=
2 5,000 (1×2×3×4×...×5,000) 2 5,000 ×5000!

Answer: E

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