SOLUTION: Could you please tell me the answer to this question my teacher gave me, and also how you should work it out? "Find three integers in arithmetic sequence whose product is a prime.

Question 132048: Could you please tell me the answer to this question my teacher gave me, and also how you should work it out?
"Find three integers in arithmetic sequence whose product is a prime."
Thankyou

Answer by edjones(8007) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
a prime number cannot be the product of three integers.
Since a prime number's only factors are one and the number itself, one and the number itself are the only numbers whose product equals the number.
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Ed
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