RE: What will be the digit in the unit’s place of a single digit which belongs to the set of natural numbers, when this number is raised to the power 5?

What will be the digit in the unit’s place of a single digit which belongs to the set of natural numbers, when this number is raised to the power 5?

a. The number itself
b. Number + 1
c. Number – 1
d. Number / 1
e. None of the above

I cannot solve this problem. Please help.

Matthew Wilson Default Asked on November 2, 2017 in GMAT.
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Your question was =
What will be the digit in the unit’s place of a single digit which belongs to the set of natural numbers, when this number is raised to the power 5?

Your Correct answer: a

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In order to answer this question,
let us find out the values of the different natural numbers in the ascending order of their powers upto the power 5.
For the natural number 2:
2, 4, 8, 16, 32
For the natural number 3:
3, 9, 27, 81, 243
For the natural number 4:
4, 16, 64, 256, 1024
For the natural number 5:
5, 25, 125, 625, 3125
From the above results we can come to a conclusion that the digit in the unit’s place
when any single digit natural number is raised to the power 5 is equal to the digit itself.

Hence, the correct answer is option a.

Brong Answered on November 2, 2017.
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