Question

can someone help me please
Which number is a prime?
A. 59
B. 27
C.14
D.91
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Answer 1

no

Answer 2

A prime number is a whole number greater than 1, whose only two whole-number factors are 1 and itself. The first few prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, and 29.

Answer 3

So do you know which numbers we can eliminate already?

Answer 4

A

Answer 5

and?

Answer 6

C

Answer 7

correct.. so do you know which one is prime?
and no A cannot be eliminated.

Answer 8

B

Answer 9

yes.... so which number is prime??? :)

Answer 10

D is a prime right

Answer 11

no

Answer 12

then A

Answer 13

Correct!

Answer 14

59 is a prime number.

For some numbers, an easy way to test for primality is to determine whether the number can be divided by any integer less than the square root and yield no remainder (this is called the divisibility of the number).

If yes or if the square root is an integer or both, then the number is not prime. If no, then the number is prime.

The square root of 59 is between 7 and 8 (the square root of 49 is 7, and for 64, the square root is 8). But since 59 cannot be divided by 2 and yield no remainder (that is, 59 is not divisible by 2), we need not test 4, 6 or 8 either; for if 59 was divisible by 4, 6 or any multiple of 2 actually, then 59 would also be divisible by 2. We thus need only test 3, 5 and 7. But dividing 59 by any of those numbers would yield a remainder, so 59 is not divisible by any of the above numbers.

So 59 is not divisible by any integer that is less than or equal to its square root and 59 is prime.

Answer 15

a

Answer 16

@AyanaOrtega

Answer 17

it was b not a