It's a perfect square.
Odd. I determined my answer by looking at the number of factors of a square number.
When the number is a square of a prime number. Of course, it will have a repeated factor, but it will still only have 3 distinct factors. 4, 9, 25, 49, 121 are some examples.
An odd number.
The difference is between factor pairs and distinct factors. With square numbers, one of the factor pairs will be the same number twice. When listing the distinct factors, that number is only listed once.
Seven distinct factors.
A composite number is a number that is not a prime number, ie it has more than two distinct factors. The factors of 25 are 1, 5, 25 - three distinct factors.
Nine factors.
A square number
The difference is one.
A prime number is a whole number that has only two distinct factors: 1 and the number itself. A composite number has at least three distinct factors.
24
Two distinct prime factors
A perfect square has an odd number of distinct factors, because two of its factors are the same number.
distinct factors
If you are multiplying negative numbers, an odd number of factors will have a negative product. An even number of factors will have a positive product.
It's a perfect square.