Is the number 500 composite or prime?

Answer 1

Any number that ends with 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 is a multiple of 2, so 500 has more factors than 1 and itself. 500 is a composite number.
It is a composite number.

Why?

Because the number 2 can go into this number. Two (2) can go into any number ending in a 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8.

If you were to do 500/2, it would equal 250. 250*2 is 500

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500

It would be 400 but you'd add a 1 to the 2 in 250 because 5*2 is 10 and you can't make it 4,100. So, you'd have to add the 1 and 2*2 is 4 and 4+1 is 5. So the answer is 500. Since 2 goes into 500, 500 is a composite number.