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Prime Sum

A release-checked easy problem for training Combinatorics.

Question

Two distinct prime integers between $1$ and $20$, inclusive, are selected uniformly at random. Find the probability their sum is even.

Practice focus

This Probability problem is tagged Combinatorics. State the random variables and conditioning information explicitly, then check the result against boundary cases before opening hints or a solution.

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