A composite number has 3 or more factors.
Example: 10 is a composite number because it has 4 factors:
1, 2, 5 and 4. You find these using multiplication or division.
Another example is 25. It has 3 factors which are 1, 5 and 25.
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A prime number has only two factors, one and the number itself. A composite number has more than two factors. Prime number examples are: 2, 3, 7, and 19. Composite number examples are: 4, 9, 12, and 18.
6 is a composite number, since its factor are 1,2,3.
Every even number over 2 is a composite number. Some examples are 6, 3013829270, 748, ect.
The number 9 is an example of a number that is both odd and composite. An odd number is one that is not divisible by 2, and a composite number is one that has more than two positive divisors. In the case of 9, its divisors are 1, 3, and 9, making it composite as well as odd. Other examples include 15, 21, and 25.
In mathematics, a composite number is a positive integer greater than 1 that can be formed by multiplying two smaller positive integers. In other words, it is not a prime number. Examples of composite numbers include 4, 6, 9, and 15.