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Is 471 a prime or composite number?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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12y ago

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471 can be divided by 3 ==> composite number.

This is an easy prime because if you make a sum of all the digits: 4 + 7 + 1 = 12, if you can devide this sum by 3 than you can also divide the original number by 3, else you can't devide this number by 3.

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