Question types

Prime Time question types

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Prime Time questions

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Assertion (A) The number 1 is considered a prime number.
Reason (R) A prime number must have exactly two distinct factors.
  • A
    Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  • B
    Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  • C
    (A) is true but (R) is false.
  • D
    (A) is false but (R) is true.
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Assertion (A) The common factors of two numbers can never be greater than the smaller number.
Reason (R) Factors are numbers that divide another number completely.
  • A
    Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  • B
    Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  • C
    (A) is true but (R) is false.
  • D
    (A) is false but (R) is true.
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Assertion (A) Tne number 9 and 25 are coprime. Reason (R) A number is said to be prime-, if it has only two factors 1 and the number itself.
  • A
    Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
  • B
    Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
  • C
    (A) is true but (R) is false.
  • D
    (A) is false but (R) is true.
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The first number has prime factorization 2 × 3 × 7 and the second number has prime factorization 3 × 7 × 11. Are they co-prime? Does one of them divide the other?
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Twin primes are pairs of primes having a difference of 2. For example, 3 and 5 are twin primes. So are 17 and 19. Find the other twin primes between l and 100.
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The teacher asked if 14560 is divisible by all of 2, 4, 5, 8 and 10. Guna checked for divisibility of 14560 by only two of these numbers and then declared that it was also divisible by all of them. What could those two numbers be?
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Explore and find out if each statement is always true, sometimes true or never true. You can give e×amples to support your reasoning.
(a) Sum of two even numbers gives a multiple of 4.
(b) Sum of two odd numbers gives a multiple of 4.
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2024 is a leap year (as February has 29 days). Leap years occur in the years that are multiples of 4, e×cept for those years that are evenly divisible by 100 but not 400.
(a) From the year you were born till now, which years were leap years?
(b) From the year 2024 till 2099, how many leap years are there?
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Q 313 Marks Question3 Marks
Are the following pairs of numbers co-prime? Guess first and then use prime factorization to verify your answer.
(a) 30 and 45
(b) 57 and 85
(c) 121 and 1331
(d) 343 and 216
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Identify whether each statement is true or false. Explain.
(a) There is no prime number whose units digit is 4.
(b) A product of primes can also be prime.
(c) Prime numbers do not have any factors.
(d) All even numbers are composite numbers.
(e) 2 is a prime and so is the next number, 3. For every other prime, the next number is composite.
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Column AColumn B
(i) The smallest odd composite number(a) 1
(ii) Number of common factor of 3 and 5.(b) 4
(iii) The smallest composite number(c) 3
(iv) Smallest even prime number(d) 9
(e) 2
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