2022 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 13
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The positive difference between a pair of primes is equal to , and the positive difference between the cubes of the two primes is . What is the sum of the digits of the least prime that is greater than those two primes?
Solution 1
Let the two primes be and . We would have and . Using difference of cubes, we would have . Since we know is equal to , would become . Simplifying more, we would get .
Now let's introduce another variable. Instead of using and , we can express the primes as and where is and b is . Plugging and in, we would have . When we expand the parenthesis, it would become . Then we combine like terms to get which equals . Then we subtract 4 from both sides to get . Since all three numbers are divisible by 3, we can divide by 3 to get .
Notice how if we had 1 to both sides, the left side would become a perfect square trinomial: which is . Since is too small to be a valid number, the two primes must be odd, therefore is the number in the middle of them. Conveniently enough, so the two numbers are and . The next prime number is , and so the answer is .
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Solution 2
Let the two primes be and , with being the smaller prime. We have , and . Using difference of cubes, we obtain . Now, we use the equation to obtain . Hence, Because we have , . Thus, , so . This implies , , and thus the next biggest prime is , so our answer is
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Solution 3 (Estimation)
Let the two primes be and such that and
By the difference of cubes formula,
Plugging in and ,
Through the givens, we can see that .
Thus,
Checking prime pairs near , we find that
The least prime greater than these two primes is
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