There are two prime numbers so that can be expressed in the form for some positive integer . What is the sum of these two prime numbers?
Solution
Note that the remainder when is divided by 5 must be 0,1 , or 4 . Then we have that or or . In the first case there are no solutions. In the second case, if , then we must have or as and cannot both be divisible by 5 , and also cannot both have a factor besides 25 . Similarly, in the third case, , so we must have or . Therefore the we have to check are . These give values of , and , of which only 23 and 29 are prime, so the answer is .
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