What is the deinition for prime number?
Prime numbers are by definition the integers pi whose only divisors are -pi, -1, 1, pi .
-1 and 1 are not considered prime numbers.
What are the three common multiples of 2 6 8?
Every multiple of 24 is a common multiple of 2, 6 & 8. Where did "three" come from?
What are the prime factors of 20 not true for 50?
4 is a prime factor of 20 whereas it isn't a factor of 50.
8000 is a composite number. It is an even number that ends in zero. It is divisible by 2, 5 and 10.
No, all whole numbers larger than two that end in the number 2 are composite.
Can an irrational number be prime factored?
No, because it is simply never ending. So you would not be able to know what it can be divided by.
Is twenty prime or composite or neither?
20 is a composite number. 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.
How do you know when you have found the prime factor of a number?
you will no when you can no longer multiply waht ever nuumber
example 4 you have 1 and 2 cause 1 times 4 and 2 times 2 now i can no longer do anything with that number so i now no the prime factors
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Is 1 a prime number explain this to a 11 year old?
I assume that if your 11 years old, you're in Grade 6, right?
Anyway, 1 is not a prime number or a composite number. A prime number is a number with only two factors: 1 and itself, while a composite number is a number with more than two factors. 1 is not either of those because its only factor is 1. Therefore, you could say it's a "special number".
What numbers are real numbers made of?
Richard Dedekind came up the concept of Dedekind cuts, which have since become the standard definition of real numbers. A Dedekind cut for a real number x is the subset of all numbers such that are smaller than or equal to x.