Q: Is 74,110,344 a Composite Number?

Why is 74,110,344 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 74,110,344 can be evenly divided by 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 11 12 14 17 21 22 24 28 33 34 42 44 49 51 56 66 68 77 84 88 98 102 119 132 136 147 154 168 187 196 204 231 238 264 294 308 337 357 374 392 408 462 476 539 561 588 616 674 714 748 833 924 952 1,011 1,078 1,122 1,176 1,309 1,348 1,428 1,496 1,617 1,666 1,848 2,022 2,156 2,244 2,359 2,499 2,618 2,696 2,856 3,234 3,332 3,707 3,927 4,044 4,312 4,488 4,718 4,998 5,236 5,729 6,468 6,664 7,077 7,414 7,854 8,088 9,163 9,436 9,996 10,472 11,121 11,458 12,936 14,154 14,828 15,708 16,513 17,187 18,326 18,872 19,992 22,242 22,916 25,949 27,489 28,308 29,656 31,416 33,026 34,374 36,652 40,103 44,484 45,832 49,539 51,898 54,978 56,616 63,019 66,052 68,748 73,304 77,847 80,206 88,968 99,078 103,796 109,956 120,309 126,038 132,104 137,496 155,694 160,412 181,643 189,057 198,156 207,592 219,912 240,618 252,076 280,721 311,388 320,824 363,286 378,114 396,312 441,133 481,236 504,152 544,929 561,442 622,776 726,572 756,228 842,163 882,266 962,472 1,089,858 1,122,884 1,323,399 1,453,144 1,512,456 1,684,326 1,764,532 2,179,716 2,245,768 2,646,798 3,087,931 3,368,652 3,529,064 4,359,432 5,293,596 6,175,862 6,737,304 9,263,793 10,587,192 12,351,724 18,527,586 24,703,448 37,055,172 and 74,110,344, with no remainder.

Since 74,110,344 cannot be divided by just 1 and 74,110,344, 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).