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Is 196 a composite number or a prime?

Updated: 8/20/2019
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7y ago

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196 is not a Prime number. It is a composite number.

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A prime number has exactly two factors: 1 (also known as unity) and itself. A composite number has more than two factors; in other words, it has at least one factor besides 1 and itself.

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Any number ending in 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 is evenly divisible by 2, so it has 2 as a factor. 196 is also divisible by 2, so it is a composite number.

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8y ago

Composite because all even numbers (EXCEPT 2) are composite numbers.

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14y ago

Any number that ends in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8 is even and divisible by 2. It is, therefore, composite.

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11y ago

A prime number has only 2 factors which are 1 and itself. Composite numbers are everything else except 1 and 0. 1 and 0 are neither prime, nor composite. 196 is composite.

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composite

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