Q: Is 37,773,736 a Composite Number?

Why is 37,773,736 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 37,773,736 can be evenly divided by 1 2 4 7 8 11 13 14 22 26 28 44 52 53 56 77 88 89 91 104 106 143 154 178 182 212 286 308 356 364 371 424 572 583 616 623 689 712 728 742 979 1,001 1,144 1,157 1,166 1,246 1,378 1,484 1,958 2,002 2,314 2,332 2,492 2,756 2,968 3,916 4,004 4,081 4,628 4,664 4,717 4,823 4,984 5,512 6,853 7,579 7,832 8,008 8,099 8,162 9,256 9,434 9,646 12,727 13,706 15,158 16,198 16,324 18,868 19,292 25,454 27,412 30,316 32,396 32,648 33,019 37,736 38,584 50,908 51,887 53,053 54,824 60,632 61,321 64,792 66,038 89,089 101,816 103,774 106,106 122,642 132,076 178,178 207,548 212,212 245,284 264,152 356,356 363,209 415,096 424,424 429,247 490,568 674,531 712,712 726,418 858,494 1,349,062 1,452,836 1,716,988 2,698,124 2,905,672 3,433,976 4,721,717 5,396,248 9,443,434 18,886,868 and 37,773,736, with no remainder.

Since 37,773,736 cannot be divided by just 1 and 37,773,736, 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).