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PROBLEM 82

Is it true that the product of any n consecutive positive integers is evenly divisible by n!?
(Please explain your answer.)

Note: n!, read "n factorial", is the product of the first n consecutive positive integers; for example, 3! = 6, the product of 1,2,3, and 5! = 120.


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