You’ve already learned several ways to classify a whole number: as positive, negative, or 0; as the opposite of a number, in terms of the whole numbers by which it’s divisible, and in terms of its multiples. Another way to classify a whole number greater than 1 is as either a “prime” number or a “composite” number. A whole number will either be a prime number or a composite number, but it can’t be both.

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