State whether the following statements are correct or not. Justify your answer:
The product of prime numbers cannot be a prime number.

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Yes, because other than $1$ and the number itself, there are two more factors i.e the two prime numbers as well.
Example: $3 \times 5 = 15$ and $15$ has four factors, i.e. $1, 3, 5,$ and $15$ .

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