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Write the natural numbers from 2 to 12. What fraction of them are prime numbers?

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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