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What makes 21 a composite number?

Updated: 4/28/2022
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7y ago

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Mathematically, 21 is a composite number because it fails to meet the definition of a prime or neither prime nor composite number. It meets the rule for a composite number.

  • Prime number - Any number whom's only two factors are one and itself, and is neither 0 nor 1, is prime.
  • Composite Number - Any number with other factors than one and itself, and is neither 0 nor 1, is composite.
  • Neither Composite Nor Prime - Is only 0 and 1.
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7y ago

It has more than two factors.

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