TITLE: At least 99% of these numbers are composite
QUESTION [7 upvotes]: This is from a contest preparation:

Prove that at least 99% of these numbers
$$10^1+1,10^2+1, 10^3+1, ..., 10^{2010}+1$$
are composite.

The problem is from 2010, obviously. I was tempted to replace 2010 with 2015, but was afraid that the statement actually may not be true for 2015.
I tried congruences, but they did not work as I expected.

REPLY [2 votes]: Let's assume the statement is true going up to 2010. Going up to 2015 doesn't even add a percentage point: $10^{2011} + 1, \ldots, 10^{2015} + 5$ could all be prime but when you round to a percentage point, you'd still get 99%.
But that's not the case, those five numbers are composite. As Albert already mentioned, if $n$ is odd, then $10^n + 1$ is divisible by 11. So we have something like 50% of these numbers guaranteed to be composite, except of course 11 which is trivially divisible by itself.
If $n \equiv 2 \pmod 4$, then $10^n + 1$ is a multiple of 101. So that's about another 25% guaranteed to be composite, aside from 101.
Now, 1001 doesn't give us much mileage, because these odd exponents are already taken care of. But with 75% of the potential primes knocked off as composites, you're well on your way to reaching 99%.