Showing posts with label Factorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Factorials. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Factorials

Hey, there's this weird thing called factorials, and Mr.Max thought it would be good if I put something on the blog if I wanted to....

In Objective 14, you learn about factorials.
(when you see something like 5! + 4!)

I'll do an easy one,
if you see 4! that means that you take all the positive intergers less than or equal to 4, and multiply them. This gives you a result of 4*3*2*1=24


There is a special case when you have 0! though. 0! is defined to have a value of 1.

Ok, now that I got that down, I'll do a practice question.

6!+4! (a) 744 (b)1488 (c)17 280 (d)34 560

To start off, 6! is 6*5*4*3*2*1, which is 720,
and 4! is 4*3*2*1, which is 24
and 720+24 is of course 744

Therefore the answer is (a) 744

Hope that helped,
Aaron