Is 17 prime or composite?

1 Answer
Mar 14, 2018

#17# is a prime number

Explanation:

To determine whether a number is prime or composite, we need to look to see if that number has any factors other than #1# and itself.

When looking at #17#, we can see that there are no factors that multiply to #17#, except #1# and #17#.

Therefore, we know that #17# is prime.