What Is A Prime Number And Composite Number?

Prime Number:

A number that only has 2 factors. This number can only be divided by 1 and its self.

For example:

7 can be only be divided by 1 and its self (7)

Composite Number:

A number that has more than 2 factors. This number can be divided by many numbers.

For example:

28 has more than 2 factors

28 can be divided by 1, 2, 14, 4, 7, 28

Here is the picture:

Prime number and Composite number

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