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What prime is 4 greater than a perfect square and 7 less than the next perfect square?

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Answer:

29

Explanation:

The squares cannot be very big. For example the difference between 10^ and 11^2 = 100 to 121 which is a difference of 21.

What you are talking about is x + 4 prime + 7 next square.

Write the squares

1

4

9

16

25

36

add 4 to get to the prime, add 7 to get to the next square. That's 12

1 and 4 have a difference of 3 too small

4 and 9 have a difference of 5 too small

9 and 16 have a difference of 7 which is too small

16 and 25 have a difference of 9 which just a little too small.

25 and 36 has a difference of 11. Just right

25 + 4 = 29

29 + 7 = 36

Just right.

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