How can a 5 be a composite and a prime number?

Anonymous

∙ 17y ago

Updated: 8/17/2019

It cannot. A number can be one or the other, but never both. The definition of Composite, is that it is "Composed" of primes, in other words that two or more primes were multiplied together to obtain it. 5 is prime.

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∙ 17y ago

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