At the zoo there were 3 times as many monkeys as lions ton counted a total of 24 monkeys and lions how many monkeys were there
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Proof by contadiction.
Let assume there exist such positive integers and
whose sum is a prime number
, that their greatest common divisor is greater than 1.
Since is a prime number and
, then
, but we assumed earlier that
, and there are no two positive integers that sum up to 1.
q.e.d.