Question

State whether the following statement is True or False.

Every natural number is either prime or composite

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is B False

Natural Number: Counting numbers are known as Natural Numbers, starting from $1,2,3$ and so on.

Prime Numbers:The numbers which have only two factors $1$ and itself are called Prime Numbers.

Composite Numbers: The numbers which have more than two factors are called Composite Numbers.

Lets take some natural numbers,

$2$ is even prime number

$3$ is odd prime number

$4$ is composite number

$5$ is odd prime number and so on

but $1$ has only one factor it means it is neither prime nor composite

Hence, every natural number always not to be prime or composite

Hence, the given statement is False.