PRIME AND COMPOSITE NUMBERS

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PRIME AND COMPOSITE NUMBERS Number Concepts and Operations

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PRIME AND COMPOSITE NUMBERS. Number Concepts and Operations. Prime & Composite Numbers. Factoring is like taking a number apart. Factors are either prime numbers or composite numbers. Prime & Composite Numbers. Prime numbers have only TWO factors – one and itself. Example: 5 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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PRIME AND COMPOSITE NUMBERS

Number Concepts and Operations

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Prime & Composite Numbers

Factoring is like taking a number apart.

Factors are either prime numbers or composite numbers.

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Prime & Composite Numbers

Prime numbers have only TWO factors – one and itself.

Example: 51 x 5 = 5Factors of 5 are: 1, 5 (one and

itself)

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Prime & Composite Numbers

Composite numbers are any number that has more than two factors.

Example: 101 x 10 = 102 x 5 = 10Factors of 10 are: 1, 2, 5, 10 (More than

two)

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Prime & Composite Numbers

0 and 1 are neither prime nor composite