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Prime Time (Posted on 2002-12-17) Difficulty: 2 of 5
There are 362,880 different numbers that use the digits 1 to 9 exactly once (like 187,432,569).

Of these, what percentage are prime numbers?

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Solution German solution | Comment 5 of 10 |

Nein.

The sum of the digits is always a multiple of 9, which means the numbers are all divisible by nine.  Therefore none are prime.


  Posted by MindRod on 2005-12-29 00:00:29
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