Q: Is 23,490,242 an Even Number?
A: Yes, the number 23,490,242 is an even number.
An even number is any integer (a whole number) that can be divided by 2. If you can cleanly divide a number by 2, the number is even. If you divide by 2 and there is a remainder left, then the number is odd.
Let's try that calculation...
23,490,242 ÷ 2 = 11,745,121
Notice the answer is a whole number and doesn't have a remainder? That means the number is even, as it can cleanly be divided by 2, with no remaining remainder.
Any number that ends in 2, 4, 6 or 8 is even. If the number is larger than 10, if it ends in 0 it is also an even number. They are even because they can be divided by 2 evenly.
Here are more examples of even and odd numbers in sequence:
| 23,490,240 | 23,490,241 | 23,490,243 | 23,490,244 |
| even | odd | odd | even |