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What is the difference between factors of a number and factors of a prime number?
Well, the factors of a prime number is that they only have two factors.
How can you tell the difference between a prime number and a composite number?
Prime numbers have two factors. Composite numbers have more than two.
Is the difference of two prime numbers a prime number?
Not necessarily. 71 is a prime number, 7 is a prime number, and 71-7= 64, which is NOT a prime number. In most cases, the difference of two prime numbers will not be a prime number. All prime numbers greater than 2 will be odd numbers. The difference between two odd numbers will be an even number. Unless that even number is 2, it is not a prime number. Here are some additional examples: 19, 13: difference 6, not prime 23, 7: difference 16, not prime 53, 31: difference 22, not prime 61, 59: difference 2, prime 113, 109: difference 4, not prime 293, 283: difference 10, not prime 331, 101: difference 230, not prime
What is The difference between 2 prime numbers is another prime numbers what is it?
All prime numbers are odd numbers, except for the number 2. The difference between two odd numbers must be a multiple of 2. So, if the difference between two prime numbers is another prime number, that difference must be 2.Examples:{3, 5}{5, 7}{11, 13}{29, 31}
What is the difference between prime and compostie number?
A prime number is a positive integer with two factors: one and the number itself. A composite number is a positive integer with more than two factors.
