## King 4 years ago :Help...........for how many positive integers n is n^3 -8n^2+20n-13 a prime number??

1. anonymous

factorize it

2. anonymous

how watever i get is not a prime number

3. anonymous

why?

4. anonymous

oh

5. anonymous

but then ii have to plug in millions of values

6. anonymous

what u want to calculate

7. anonymous

(n^3 -8n^2+20n-13) a prime number

8. anonymous

or n is a prime number

9. anonymous

for n i will have to put millions of values to find how may n positive integers satisfy n^3 -8n^2+20n-13 to be a prime number

10. anonymous

ok

11. anonymous

so,what to do??

12. anonymous

anything i can do to narrow down the possobilities

13. anonymous

14. anonymous

ok see for 2 it is prime number

15. anonymous

wait i took wrong concept

16. anonymous

$(x-1) \times [(x-7)x + 13]$

17. anonymous

where x is n

18. anonymous

ok

19. anonymous

now see the first term is (x-1). and other than 2 no other even number is a prime number right

20. anonymous

21. anonymous

no n does not have to be a prime number n^3 -8n^2+20n-13 has to be a prime number

22. anonymous

yeah i know (x−1)×[(x−7)x+13] it has to be prime

23. anonymous

yup so x can be anything greater or equal to 2

24. anonymous

first term is (x-1) and two is the only even prime number.

25. anonymous

but if u will subtract 1 from any other prime number the resultant will be divisible by 2

26. anonymous

getting my point or not

27. anonymous

x can be 4

28. anonymous

yeah u r right

29. anonymous

it means that for any odd integer other than 3 u will not get a prime number

30. anonymous

yeah

31. anonymous

Superb sheggy!

32. anonymous

also the number cannot be graeter than 7

33. anonymous

oh yeah

34. anonymous

thanks fool bhai

35. anonymous

so u are having a limited space to work out that is from 1 to 7

36. anonymous

yes sheg u got it so answer is n=2,3,4

37. anonymous

no actually 2 to 7

38. anonymous

hahahaa right 2 to 7

39. anonymous

but for 7 it will be 0

40. anonymous

wait why cant it be greater than 7?

41. anonymous

try any number u will get the answer

42. anonymous

odd numbers cannot be included ok thats true

43. anonymous

as i had told u any odd number subtracted by one will result in even number so it will be divisible by 2.........do u accept it or not

44. anonymous

is 323 a prime number?

45. anonymous

yeah i acept

46. anonymous

its not div by 17

47. anonymous

323 is divisible by 17

48. anonymous

so 323 is not a prime number

49. anonymous

4387 ?

50. anonymous

what u have put x = ??

51. anonymous

n=20

52. anonymous

1443?

53. anonymous

gtg shall come bak in 15 min

54. anonymous

for n = 20 it should be equal to 5187

55. anonymous

oh yeah 1443?

56. anonymous

no

57. anonymous

20^3 - 8*20^2 + 20*20 -13 =8000 - 3200 + 400 -13 = 8400 - 3213 = 5187

58. anonymous

gtg cum bak in 15 mins

59. anonymous

dear i had told u for no value greater than 7 it would fit

60. anonymous

and both 1443 and 5187 is divisible by 3

61. anonymous

i am bak so what to do now?

62. anonymous

for no value greater than 7 that too even number it will not be a prime number

63. anonymous

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=x^3-8x^2%2B20x-13+where+x+%3D+20 visit this website and plug in different value of x u will get the answer

64. anonymous

king u there