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What is the definition of a prime and a composite number and a composite number and a composite number?
A prime number has two factors, a composite number has more than two.
What is the definition for composite numbers?
A composite number is a positive integer that has a positive divisor other than one or itself. In other words a composite number is any positive integer greater than one that is not a prime number.
Is the number 1 composite or prime and why?
1 is neither a prime nor a composite number because it has only one factor (itself (1)). The definition of a prime number is a number that has the factor of one and itself, so one is not prime. The definition of a composite number is a number that has more than 2 factors, so one is not composite. One is a special number.
Can a composite number have exzactly 2 factors?
No. The definition of a composite number is a natural number that isn't prime (or 1). The definition of a prime number is one with only 2 factors (itself and 1).
How do you make composite prime?
You cannot. By definition, a composite number is not prime and you cannot make it prime.
How is 99 composite?
The definition of a composite number is...A positive number which can be divided by another positive number other than one or itself.99 = Positive99/3 = 33Therefore it is composite.
Why is the following a poor definition for a composite number. A composite number has more than one factor.?
Prime numbers have rwo facrors
Definition of prime factorization?
The breaking down of a composite number into its prime number factors.
Are all prime numbers composite numbers?
Not at all. The definition of a composite number is one that has more than two factors - the exact opposite of a prime.
Is 39 prime composite or neither?
The number 39 is a composite number. 39 = 3 x 13. Because 39 can be written as a product of primes (3 and 13), it is, by definition composite.
Are all prime numbers composite no?
Every positive integer greater than 1 is either prime or composite.
What is the definition of prime composite?
A prime number is a natural number that has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself. A composite number is a positive integer which has a positive divisor other than one or itself.
