Q: Is 21,850,224 a Composite Number?

Why is 21,850,224 a composite number?

A composite number is a number that can be divided evenly by more numbers than 1 and itself. It is the opposite of a prime number.

The number 21,850,224 can be evenly divided by 1 2 3 4 6 8 11 12 16 22 24 29 33 44 48 58 66 87 88 116 132 174 176 232 264 319 348 464 528 638 696 957 1,276 1,392 1,427 1,914 2,552 2,854 3,828 4,281 5,104 5,708 7,656 8,562 11,416 15,312 15,697 17,124 22,832 31,394 34,248 41,383 47,091 62,788 68,496 82,766 94,182 124,149 125,576 165,532 188,364 248,298 251,152 331,064 376,728 455,213 496,596 662,128 753,456 910,426 993,192 1,365,639 1,820,852 1,986,384 2,731,278 3,641,704 5,462,556 7,283,408 10,925,112 and 21,850,224, with no remainder.

Since 21,850,224 cannot be divided by just 1 and 21,850,224, it is a composite number.

More Examples

• All positive natural numbers are either a prime number or a composite number (except the number 1, which is neither).