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Write the natural numbers from 2 to 12. What fraction of them are prime numbers?
Answer :
At first,
Natural numbers from 2 to 12 are as follows:
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Now,
Prime numbers among them are:
2, 3, 5, 7, 11
Hence,
There are total 5 prime numbers out of 11 natural numbers.
Therefore,
The required fraction is 
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