= = = = = = The denominator must cancel entirely into the numerator. If we have enough factors which are multiples of 7's in the denominator to cancel entirely into the multiples of 7's which are factors of the numerator, then we will automatically have enough factors of multiples of 2 since there are fewer multiples of 2 in the denominator than multiples of 7 and there are 48 even factors in the top, so we only need be sure there are as many factors which are multiples of 7 in the denominator to cancel into the 16 multiples of 7 in the numerator. How did I know there were 16 multiples of 7 which are factors of the numerator? Here's how I knew. The integers from 1 to 98, inclusive are factors of the numerator of 98!, there are 14 which are multiples of 7. There are 98÷7 or 14 multiples of 7. These are: 7,14,21,28,35,42,49,56,63,70,77,84,91,98. Each of those has 7 as a factor once, except 49 and 98 which each have a factor of 7 twice. So that makes 16 factors of 7 in the numerator. So the 2n 7's in the bottom must cancel completely into the the 16 multiples of 7 in the top. So 2n ≤ 16 n ≤ 8 So 8 is the biggest possible value of n. Edwin