Question

Consider ‘2’ to be the first prime number. Which of the following will be the sixteenth prime number?

47

61

59

53

Answer 1

The correct answer, 53 is the sixteenth prime number.

Given:

The first prime number is 2

To Find:

We need to find the 16th prime number

Solution:

We know that prime numbers are those numbers that do not have any factors apart from 1 and the number itself.

Now, the prime numbers starting from 2 are listed as:

3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53

now, as we can see the number 53 is the 15th prime number after 2.

Thus, the 16th prime number comes out to be 53.

Answer 2

53

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