Question 153695: Can you find three consecutive odd numbers that are prime number?
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source):
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Consecutive odd integers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, etc
Since 1 is not prime (by definition), we can skip it. Moving on we see that three is prime, five is prime, and seven is prime. So three consecutive odd numbers that are prime numbers are 3, 5, and 7
If you want to find another set, extend the list of consecutive odd integers and test whether or not the numbers in that set is prime.
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