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Here is a question which is really troublesome:

Let N be a 2 digit prime number. When the digits are interchanged we get another prime number M.

If M + N =176, find N-M.

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  • How have you tried to tackle this? Can you please show some working and where you are stuck. – EHH Apr 15 '16 at 08:39
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    Why is it troublesome? Put $N=10a+b$. Hence find $a+b$. Note that given the constraints $1\le a\le 9$ and $1\le b\le 9$ there is only one solution with $a>b$. – almagest Apr 15 '16 at 08:40
  • $97-79=18$...... or $79-97=-18$ – barak manos Apr 15 '16 at 08:41
  • 176 is pretty high: if you subtract 9x you then get something that is either 8y (which we rule out because y8 is not prime) or 7y, which means 97 and 79. Now you're left to verify the sum and test the primeness. – polettix Apr 15 '16 at 08:47

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Wlog, assume $N\geq M$

then $198\geq 2N\geq 176$

$99\geq N\geq 88$

Then it is easy to find out the value of $N$ by listing the prime numbers between the range

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