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Algebra Difficulty 1.5 Junior Find the answer Canada

A list of 5 integers repeats to form the pattern: $4, -3, 2, -1, 0, 4, -3, 2, -1, 0, \ldots$
What is the sum of the first 23 integers?

Pick one

Solution

The prime numbers that are less than 10 are $2,3,5$ , and 7.

Thus, the only two different prime numbers whose sum is 10 are 3 and
7.

The product of these two numbers is $3\times7=21$ .

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