Problem

Source: Kyiv City MO 2024 Round 2, Problem 10.1

Tags: number theory, Digits



For some positive integer $n$, Katya wrote on the board next to each other numbers $2^n$ and $14^n$ (in this order), thus forming a new number $A$. Can the number $A - 1$ be prime? Proposed by Oleksii Masalitin