Britney spears her grilled shrimp so the product of the numbers of shrimp is 1001. If the number of shrimp on each spear is a prime, how many shrimp does Britney spear altogether?

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David Drayer
Jun 16, 2017

13 is the number of shrimp on each spear

Explanation:

# 13 xx 77 = 1001#

so if there are 13 shrimp on each spear the number of spears to get a total of 1001 shrimp there must be 77 spears.

I solved the problem by trial and error dividing 1001 by the prime numbers.

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