I make up all the 55 digit numbers that use each of the digits from 11 to 55 once. I then arrange these 120120 numbers in increasing order from 1234512345 to 5432154321.Which number is the 4242nd in this order?
Question
I make up all the 55 digit numbers that use each of the digits from 11 to 55 once. I then arrange these 120120 numbers in increasing order from 1234512345 to 5432154321.Which number is the 4242nd in this order?
Solution
The question seems to be a bit confusing as it mentions using each of the digits from 11 to 55 once to form a 55 digit number. However, 11 to 55 are not digits, they are two-digit numbers.
If we assume that the question is asking about using each of the digits from 1 to 5 twice to form a 10 digit number, then we can proceed as follows:
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First, we need to understand that when arranging numbers in increasing order, the numbers starting with 1 will come first, then numbers starting with 2, and so on.
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Each digit from 1 to 5 can be the starting digit of 24,024 numbers (this is because there are 9 remaining spots that can be filled by any of the remaining 9 digits, and the number of permutations of 9 elements is 9!, which equals 362,880. Since we have two sets of 1-5, we divide this by 2 to avoid double-counting, giving us 181,440. Multiplying this by the 2 possible first digits gives us 362,880, which is equal to 24,024 when divided by 10).
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Since 42,42 is less than 24,024, the 42,42nd number will start with 1.
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Now, we subtract 24,024 from 42,42 to find out how many numbers into the '2' section we are. This gives us 18,398.
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We then repeat the process, dividing 18,398 by 8! (which equals 40,320) to find out the second digit. Since 18,398 is less than 40,320, the second digit is also 1.
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We continue this process to find the remaining digits.
Please note that this is a complex combinatorial problem and may require a computer program to solve completely.
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