Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, Seventh Edition

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Chapter 4 - Section 4.3 - Primes and Greatest Common Divisors - Exercises - Page 272: 1

Answer

a) no b) yes c) yes d) yes e) no f) no

Work Step by Step

A number is composite if and only if it can be listed as a product of factors, in addition to the trivial factorization of $n=n\cdot 1$. The numbers in this section can be factored according to the chart found earlier in the section. a) 21=3*7, so composite b) 29 is prime c) 71 is prime d) 97 is prime e) 111=3*37 f) 143=11*13
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