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

Five children each writes down a different positive integer. One writes down a square, one writes down a cube, one writes down a prime, one writes down an odd integer and one writes down an even integer. What is the smallest possible total of the five integers?

(A) 1515 (B) 1717 (C) 1919 (D) 2121 (E) 2323

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