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Exihibit a counterexample for the following. Every prime number is odd.

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A counter example would be the number 2.

2 is a prime number, because it only has two factors ( itself and 1)

Yet 2 is also an even number, because it can be exactly divided by two.

So the number 2 proves that not every prime number is odd.

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