Of the 1,000 numbers from 1 to 1,000, 168 are primes and one (the number 1) is neither composite nor prime. Subtracting the 169 numbers that are not composites leaves 831 composuite numbers from 1 to 1,000 (1,000 - 169 = 831).
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The number of composite numbers is infinite.
The composite numbers between 11 and 29 are 12,14,15,16,18,20,21,22,24,25,26,27 & 28.
There are infinitely many of them.
Out of those 100 numbers, 21 of them are prime numbers, so the remaining (100 - 21) = 79 are composite.
There are many, many more composite numbers than prime numbers. For example, beyond the number 3, every other number is composite, as it is divisible by 2. Following this, every number ending with a 5 other than 5 itself is composite, as it is divisible by 5, and every third odd number is divisble by 3. There are many complicated divisibility tests for numbers above 5.