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UKMT Senior Kangaroo, 2016

Geometry Difficulty 1.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

Bav is counting the edges on a particular prism. The prism has more than 310 edges, it has fewer than 320 edges and its number of edges is odd. How many edges does the prism have?

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