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What percent of the first 10 natural numbers are prime numbers

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50%
1, 3, 5, 7, 9
5 out of the 10
User Charaf JRA
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Of the first 10 numbers, for example, 40 percent are prime — 2, 3, 5 and 7 — but among 10-digit numbers, only about 4 percent are prime.
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