Stage: 4 Challenge Level: 
How many zeros are there at the end of the number which is the product of first hundred positive integers?
Working systematically. Factors and multiples. Index notation/Indices. Multiplication & division. Number - generally. Modulus arithmetic. Mathematical reasoning & proof. Properties of numbers. Long problems. Factorials.
Published November 1998.
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