Let be an odd prime and where and are coprime positive integers.
Enter the sum of all possible odd primes such that .
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As p is an odd prime so there are p − 1 i.e. even numbers of terms are there.Now we will start grouping as follows -
k 1 + p − k 1 = k ( p − k ) p where 0 ≤ k ≤ 2 p − 1 .
The above sum can be rearranged as
B p A p = k = 0 ∑ 2 p − 1 k ( p − k ) p
The numerator hwill have a factor p and it will not cancel out by any factor of denominator because there is no factor p contains in it (as p is a prime).
So, A p will be divisible by p for every p < 5 0 .