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Enigma No. 1524

By Adrian Somerfield

10 December 2008

Prime furniture

SOME three-digit primes are formed from a one-digit prime followed by a two-digit prime, others from a two-digit prime followed by a one-digit prime, and some can be in both classes.

I recently bought three pieces of furniture, and each cost a different sum which was one of the last-mentioned type of prime (in euros), but the total I paid was not a prime.

In ascending order, what were the prices of my pieces of furniture?

£15 will be awarded to the sender of the first correct answer opened on Wednesday 21 January. The Editor’s decision is final.…

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