Q: Is 90,871,308 a Composite Number?

Why is 90,871,308 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 90,871,308 can be evenly divided by 1 2 3 4 6 9 11 12 18 22 27 33 36 44 54 66 81 99 108 132 162 198 243 297 324 396 486 594 729 891 972 1,188 1,458 1,782 2,673 2,833 2,916 3,564 5,346 5,666 8,019 8,499 10,692 11,332 16,038 16,998 25,497 31,163 32,076 33,996 50,994 62,326 76,491 93,489 101,988 124,652 152,982 186,978 229,473 280,467 305,964 373,956 458,946 560,934 688,419 841,401 917,892 1,121,868 1,376,838 1,682,802 2,065,257 2,524,203 2,753,676 3,365,604 4,130,514 5,048,406 7,572,609 8,261,028 10,096,812 15,145,218 22,717,827 30,290,436 45,435,654 and 90,871,308, with no remainder.

Since 90,871,308 cannot be divided by just 1 and 90,871,308, 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).