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# Two different primes may be said to"rhyme" around an integer

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Two different primes may be said to"rhyme" around an integer [#permalink]  03 Jan 2011, 09:58
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Two different primes may be said to"rhyme" around an integer if they are the same distance from the integer on the number line. For instance, 3 and 7 rhyme around 5. What integer between 1 and 20, inclusive, has the greatest number of distinct rhyming primes around it?

A. 12
B. 15
C. 17
D. 18
E. 20

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Two different primes may be said to"rhyme" around an integer [#permalink]  03 Jan 2011, 12:30
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Two different primes may be said to"rhyme" around an integer if they are the same distance from the integer on the number line. For instance, 3 and 7 rhyme around 5. What integer between 1 and 20, inclusive, has the greatest number of distinct rhyming primes around it?

1. 12
2. 15
3. 17
4. 18
5. 20

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Heaven knows what I'll do if I encounter such a question on GMAT!! It is solvable no doubt but very time consuming.. Please do post the time you take to solve this question.. I took 1.4 minutes to grasp the question, then left it as I thought it would eat away the valuable remaining time on the test.

As per definition two different primes $$p_1$$ and $$p_2$$ are "rhyming primes" if $$n-p_1=p_2-n$$, for some integer $$n$$ --> $$2n=p_1+p_2$$. So twice the number $$n$$ must equal to the sum of two different primes, one less than $$n$$ and another more than $$n$$.

Let's test each option:

A. 12 --> 2*12=24 --> 24=5+19=7+17=11+13: 6 rhyming primes (start from the least prime and see whether we can get the sum of 24 by adding another prime more than 12 to it);
B. 15 --> 2*15=30 --> 30=7+23=11+19=13+17: 6 rhyming primes;
C. 17 --> 2*17=34 --> 34=3+31=5+29=11+23: 6 rhyming primes;
D. 18 --> 2*18=36 --> 36=5+31=7+29=13+23=17+19: 8 rhyming primes;
E. 20 --> 2*20=40 --> 40=3+37=11+29=17+23: 6 rhyming primes.

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Re: rhyming primes [#permalink]  04 Jan 2011, 01:23
great explanation Bunel, thanks a lot..... and a nice question
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Re: rhyming primes [#permalink]  04 Jan 2011, 18:32
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Two different primes may be said to"rhyme" around an integer if they are the same distance from the integer on the number line. For instance, 3 and 7 rhyme around 5. What integer between 1 and 20, inclusive, has the greatest number of distinct rhyming primes around it?

1. 12
2. 15
3. 17
4. 18
5. 20

Source: MGMAT

Heaven knows what I'll do if I encounter such a question on GMAT!! It is solvable no doubt but very time consuming.. Please do post the time you take to solve this question.. I took 1.4 minutes to grasp the question, then left it as I thought it would eat away the valuable remaining time on the test.

Alternative solution:

Since we are concerned with integers between 1 and 20, write down the primes till 40.
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37
(you should be very comfortable with the first few primes... )

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 12, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37 - Three pairs (11,13), (7,17), (5, 19)

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37 - Three pairs (13, 17), (11, 19), (7, 23)

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37 - Three pairs (11, 23), (5, 29), (3, 31)

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 18, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37 - Four pairs (17, 19), (13, 23), (7, 29), (5, 31)

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 20, 23, 29, 31, 37 - definitely cannot be more than 4 since there are only 4 primes more than 20. So must be less than 4 pairs. Ignore.

It doesn't take too much time to look for equidistant pairs...
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Re: Two different primes may be said to"rhyme" around an integer [#permalink]  21 Dec 2014, 21:58
My apologies! Had accidentally counted 15, 19 as a rhyming pair. Didn't see the 31,3 pair.
Thanks for the correction.
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Re: Two different primes may be said to"rhyme" around an integer [#permalink]  30 Dec 2014, 11:07
Hello,

I wanted to share how I ended up with the correct answer. It is probably a lucky choice, but just in case I wanted to share.

So, I didn't see the connection with the mean (even though statistics is my biggest strength). What I did was to first find the primes up to 20, just to see if there is a pattern that makes sense.

So, I lined them up, smaller to larger, and tried to find a number that is between 1 and 20. For me this meant 1<x<20, so I wanted a number that is one of these: 2,3,4....,19.

Then, I realised that there is no upper limmit to the primes - so there is no reason why they should stop at 19. What I realised then, is that the number that has most primes should be the highest possible in the range we are given: one of 2,3,4,....,19. So, 19 being the highest value, it is logical that this one would have the most primes around it. I rejected 20, because of the range, so I chose 18 (D), because it was the second highest.

Does it make any sense?
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