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What is the largest prime number less than 200?

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Answer:

199

Explanation:

A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers.

A prime number is a number that has only two divisors: 1 and itself.

Exaples:

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23 ...

We know: all primes except 2 are odd.

Let's check the number 199:

We know:

13² = 13 · 13 = 169 < 200

17² = 17 · 17 = 289 > 200

199 : 3 is not an integer

199 : 5 is not an integer

199 : 7 is not an integer

199 : 11 is not an integer

199 : 13 is not an integer

199 : 17 is not an integer

Therefore 199 is thelargest prime number less than 200.

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