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Can you solve the multiplying rabbits riddle? - Alex Gendler

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After years of experiments, you’ve finally created the pets of the future – nano-rabbits! They’re tiny, they’re fuzzy ... and they multiply faster than the eye can see. But a rival lab has sabotaged you, threatening the survival of your new friends. Can you figure out how to avert this hare-raising catastrophe? Alex Gendler shows how.

Additional Resources for you to Explore

Counting the number of trailing zeros from the second row down yields the pattern known as Pascal’s Triangle.
Read an alternate way of finding trailing zeros in large numbers, see here.

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Meet The Creators

Educator
Alex Gendler
Director
Igor Coric
Narrator
Addison Anderson
Animator
Nemanja Petrovic
Producer
Milica Lapcevic
Content Producer
Gerta Xhelo
Editorial Producer
Alex Rosenthal
Associate Producer
Bethany Cutmore-Scott
Fact-Checker
Brian Gutierrez

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