Greatest Prime
  • Book D-1

    Classification: AL, NT, PS, PA

    NCTM Standards: Number and Operations; Algebra; Problem Solving; Reasoning and Proof; Connections

    What is the greatest prime number that can be represented as both the sum of two prime numbers and as the difference of two prime numbers?

Answer:    
  Please enter a numerical answer
(ex. 1000 or 2.033) and click GO.		    

Contest problems and answers provided by:

David Rock
rock_david@colstate.edu
Columbus State University

Doug Brumbaugh
brumbad@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
University of Central Florida