Prime Numbers: The Building Blocks of Mathematics - Exam
- 1. Which of the following is the smallest prime number?
A) 2
B) 1
C) 5
D) 3
- 2. What is the next prime number after 17?
A) 21
B) 25
C) 19
D) 23
- 3. What is the prime factorization of 20?
A) 3 x 3 x 3
B) 2 x 2 x 5
C) 2 x 3 x 5
D) 2 x 2 x 2
- 4. What is the sum of the first five prime numbers?
A) 30
B) 28 (2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11)
C) 20
D) 25
- 5. Which famous mathematician proposed the Goldbach Conjecture regarding prime numbers?
A) Leonhard Euler
B) Pierre de Fermat
C) Euclid
D) Christian Goldbach
- 6. What is the first prime number above 100?
A) 103
B) 97
C) 99
D) 101
- 7. Which algorithm can be used to determine if a number is prime?
A) Sieve of Eratosthenes
B) Dijkstra's algorithm
C) Quick sort algorithm
D) Euclidean algorithm
- 8. What is the product of the first three prime numbers?
A) 30 (2 x 3 x 5)
B) 25
C) 35
D) 20
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