What is the tens digit of
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The last two digits of powers of cycle as follows:
This cycle has period . Since , we have that , so the tens digit is .
Alternate Solution:
We wish to calculate . Note that . Since , we must have . By Chinese Remainder Theorem, it follows that , and so the tens digit is , as before.
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