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Whether it’s possible to construct a magic square using the first nine prime numbers (here counting 1 as prime):
1 2 3 5 7 11 13 17 19
Is it?
Find the possibility here!
What was the task given?
That's impossible task. All the listed prime numbers sums together to 78. For square to be magic, sum of each row & column must be equal. In this case, it should be 78/3 = 26.
For sum of 3 to be even, 1 must be even & other 2 odd (or all even). All 3 odd can't sum even.
In listed prime numbers there is only 1 even number i.e.2. Hence, for other 2 rows/columns we can't have even sum.
