SOLUTION: What is the difference between the greatest prime number that is less than 60 and the least prime number?

Question 1091803: What is the difference between the greatest prime number that is less than 60 and the least prime number?

Answer by Edwin McCravy(20056) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is the difference between the greatest prime number
that is less than 60 and the least prime number?

Prime numbers are positive integers which cannot be broken
down into the product of two integer factors such that neither 
factor is 1.

The greatest prime number that is less than 60 is 59.
The least prime number is 2.

To find their difference, we subtract them:

59-2 = ?

I'll bet you can subtract them all by yourself. :)

Edwin

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