Is 10 a prime or composite?

Jayson Hebert

Jayson Hebert

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2022-02-02

Is 10 a ' or composite?

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sigcinweq0s

Beginner2022-02-03Added 19 answers

Answer: 10 is a composite number.
Explanation:
To check if a number n is ', test if n is divisible from any of the numbers from 2 all the way up to n. If n isn't divisible, by any of the numbers, then n is '.
For 10, we want to test all the whole numbers between 2 and 10 which is about 3.2. We will need to test 2 and 3:
Is 10 divisible by 2?
Yes, because 10÷2=5.
This fact is enough to prove that 10 is not ', so we can stop now. This means that 10 is composite.

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