The product of the digits of a 5 -digit number is 180 . How many such numbers exist?
HMMT February
Solution
Let the digits be . Then . We observe that there are 6 ways to factor 180 into digits (ignoring differences in ordering): . There are (respectively) , and 30 permutations of these breakdowns, for a total of 360 numbers.
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