Question

52 as sum of two odd prime number

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

41+11=52

two prime numbers 41 and 11

AND

two prime numbers are 47 and 5

Answer 2

Concept

Prime numbers are the ones that do not have any factors except 1 and the number itself.

Given

a number: 52

Find

we need to write 52 as the sum of 2 odd prime numbers

Solution

There can be many ways in which 52 can be written as the sum of 2 odd prime numbers.

Let us first list down all odd prime numbers less than 52, these are-

3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43 and 47

Out of these, we can see that only the following pairs will have the sum equal to 52

5, 47

11, 41

29, 13

Hence, 52 can be written as a sum of two odd prime numbers in 3 ways (provided that the numbers are positive)- 5 + 47, 11 + 41 and 29 + 13.

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