SOLUTION: Find the units digit of 7^157.

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Question 670006: Find the units digit of 7^157.
Answer by MathLover1(20850) About Me  (Show Source):
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To solve a question like this, one looks at patterns of powers and a cycle of length.
7%5E1+=7.................unit's dig. 7
7%5E2+=+49...............unit's dig. 9
7%5E3+=+343..............unit's dig. 3
7%5E4+=+2401.............unit's dig. 1...pattern:7,9,3,1
7%5E5+=+16807............
7%5E6+=+117649...........
7%5E7+=+823543...........
7%5E8+=+5764801...........pattern is repeating
7%5E9+=+40353607......
7%5E10+=282475249.....
7%5E11+=1977326743.....
7%5E12+=13841287201......pattern is repeating
So the unit's digits of powers of 7 follow a cycle of length 4: 7,9,3,1 ... ...
so let's find the remainder when we divide157 by 4: 157+=+39%2A4+%2B+1+
Since the remainder is 1, and 7%5E157 has the same unit's digit as 7%5E1, which is 7.