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Question 29
State abbreviations for any states with FIPS code numbers that are 2 digit prime numbers, but are not prime factors of 17,734,583,045,426.
Answer: NC
Of the 2-digit primes possible, only 11, 37 and 43 are not factors of the number. FIPS code number 43 hasn’t been assigned yet and number 11 is for Washington, D.C., not a state, so the answer is North Carolina.
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Since some FIPS codes are listed as 2-digit numbers with leading zeros, please confirm that 2-digit numbers with leading zeros were not considered in finding the solution(s).
Posted by: Sean F | Nov 11, 2004 12:07:00 AM
Depending on the site referred to, state FIPS are listed as either 079, for example, or just 79. We are of the opinion that the whole number 000000000000079.000 is actually a two-digit number (79). Is that clearer than an unmuddied lake?
Posted by: DonV | Nov 11, 2004 10:22:15 AM
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