You have five pieces of paper. You pick one or more of them and cut each
of them into five smaller pieces. Now you take one or more of the pieces
from this lot and cut each of these into five smaller pieces. And so on.
Prove that you will never have 2003 pieces.

Question

You have five pieces of paper. You pick one or more of them and cut each
of them into five smaller pieces. Now you take one or more of the pieces
from this lot and cut each of these into five smaller pieces. And so on.
Prove that you will never have 2003 pieces.

goformit100 · Answer

@dan815 @Loser66

goformit100 · Answer

Ok

anonymous · Answer

you keep on dividing it by 5 , you wont get 2003 since 2003 is not a multiple of 5

goformit100 · Answer

Thanks... the concept of seeing the multiple was nice

dan815 · Answer

that is not proof

dan815 · Answer

because think about this
you can have 5 pieces you only pick 4 of them and do it
u have a 1 left
and you are allowed to pick number of pieces you want to do it for you dont have to do it for every pieces

dan815 · Answer

the answer has to do something with that the difference can never be 2 from 5 i think

goformit100 · Answer

ok

dan815 · Answer

it has to do something with this property

dan815 · Answer

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