Chance a random cube has last two digits 11
Question
An integer is selected uniformly at random from . What is the probability that the decimal expansion of ends with the digits ?
Short answer
. Only the last two digits of matter. For to end in , must end in ; writing gives , so , i.e. . Exactly one residue, , works modulo , and is a multiple of .
Adapted from Zhou, A Practical Guide to Quantitative Finance Interviews, sec. 4.2 Combinatorial Analysis, 'Cubic of integer', p.71; question and answer rewritten by SelfMadeQuant.com.
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- Counting and Combinatorics
- Continuous Random Variables and Probability Density Functions
- Cumulative Distribution Functions
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