2016/17 AHSMC Part 1 Problem 7
Problem 7 of 16
The angles of a triangle when measured in degrees are all prime numbers. The smallest possible size of the largest angle is:
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Solution
Let be the measures in degrees of the angles of . Since one of the angles should be even and hence . On the other hand, , hence . Since is prime, we can take , . The answer is (D).