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UKMT Junior Mathematical Challenge, 2026

Number theory Difficulty 3.0 AMC 10/12 Find the answer United Kingdom

Sam is asked to write $2026$ as the sum of a list of five different primes. How many possibilities are there for the smallest prime in Sam’s list?

(A) one (B) two (C) three (D) four (E) more than four

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