Prime numbers to 100
You learn about prime numbers: numbers only divisible by 1 and themselves.
How to work it out
- Try if the number is divisible by 2, 3, 5 or 7.
- If none go into it, then it has only two divisors: 1 and itself.
- Then it is a prime number.
Is 7 a prime number?
- Can you divide 7 by 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6? No.
- Only by 1 and 7.
- So 7 is prime.
Another example
Is 12 a prime number?
- You can divide 12 by 2, 3, 4 and 6.
- So 12 is not prime.