OCR H240/02 2019 June — Question 6

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleH240/02 (Pure Mathematics and Statistics)
Year2019
SessionJune
TopicProof

6 Shona makes the following claim.
" \(n\) is an even positive integer greater than \(2 \Rightarrow 2 ^ { n } - 1\) is not prime"
Prove that Shona's claim is true.