MCQ
Consider all natural number whose decimal expansion has only the even digits $0,2,4,6,8$. Suppose these are arranged in increasing order. If $a _n$ denotes the $n$th number in this sequence, then $\frac{\lim _{n \rightarrow \infty} \log a_n}{\log n}$ equals
  • A
    $0$
  • $\log _5 10$
  • C
    $\log _2 10$
  • D
    $2$

Answer

Correct option: B.
$\log _5 10$
b
(b)

We have all natural numbers whose decimal expansion has only even digits $0,2,4,6,8$.

$a_n=n$th number of sequence if these are arranged in increasing orders.

Let $n=5^K$, then $5$ based representation of $n$ is a $1$ followed by $K$ zeroes,

$\therefore$ Decimal representation and doubling its value, we obtain a $2$ followed by $K$ zeroes that is $210^K$.

$\therefore \quad \log a_n=K+\log _{10} 2$

$\Rightarrow \log n =K \log _{10} 5$

$\Rightarrow \quad \lim _{n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\log a_n}{\log n} =\frac{K+\log _{10} 2}{K \log _{10} 5}$

$K$ goes to infinity

$\therefore \quad \lim _{n \rightarrow \infty} \frac{\log a_n}{\log n}=\frac{1}{\log _{10} 5}=\log _5 10$

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