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I wrote the question myself.

wonder_gmat-- given conditions 1 and 2, can you come up with prime and nonprime possibilities for x? Think more about condition 2...
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I wrote the question myself.

wonder_gmat-- given conditions 1 and 2, can you come up with prime and nonprime possibilities for x? Think more about condition 2...

Hmm... I understood the question in two different ways. And if E is not the answer then I'll have to say C.

Good question, stoolfi!
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I wrote the question myself.

wonder_gmat-- given conditions 1 and 2, can you come up with prime and nonprime possibilities for x? Think more about condition 2...
Hmm... I understood the question in two different ways. And if E is not the answer then I'll have to say C.

Good question, stoolfi!


Primes are #'s divisible by 1 and itself

B say the X is not divisible by any number < 80.

So X cant be prime as X would not divisible by 1.

here is where i am lost....is there any integer which is not divisible

by 1?

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Yep. C.

83 is the next prime after 80. 83^2 >5969 so (1) and (2) are sufficient to answer the question.
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Praetorian-- You are right about 1 being a factor. That was negligent of me.

The reasoning behind the question: Of course neither of the two statements was in and of itself sufficient.

Together, however, we know that the number isn't divisible by any number less than eighty, and that the number is less than eighty squared.
So if a number greater than eighty is a factor, it's complement must be less than eighty. But we are told that no numbers less than eighty are factors.

So the answer (excepting my flub that Praetorian caught) is C.



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