Given are five different prime numbers and that satisfy the following conditions
What is the value of ?
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As the given prime numbers are all different, the first condition implies that A , B , D , E are all odd. The third condition then implies that C is even, i.e. C = 2 .
Using C = 2 and A = B + 2 we can eliminate A and C and are left with the following three conditions:
2 × B + D + 2 = E
2 × B + 7 = E
3 × B − 1 0 < E
The first two conditions imply D = 5 . The second two conditions imply B < 1 7 . Taking into account that A = B + 2 also needs to be a prime number and A and B need to be different to D = 5 we can conclude B = 1 1 and hence A = 1 3 and E = 2 9 .