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What is Prime Number .

Prime Number are natural number that are divisible by only 1 and the number itself.
The first few prime numbers are;
2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61,67,71,73,79,83,89,97.

 The largest known prime number is 282,589,933-1 which has 24,862,048 digits.
 The smallest prime number is 2
 The only even prime number is 2
 No prime number ends in 0,2,4,6,8

How Can identify Prime Number .

We can identify prime number by the rule of 6n±1.


It states that;
All prime number greater than 3 can be expressede in the form 6n±1, where n is a natural
number and the number is not be divisble by 5 or 7.
For Example;
The number 11,13,17,19,23 is prime number that can all expressed as 6n±1;
11=6(2) – 1
13=6(2) + 1
17=6(3) - 1
19=6(3) +1
23=6(4) - 1

Again;
If we see that the number 25 which can be expressed as;

6n ± 1
=6(4) +1
=25
But it is not prime number because it can be divisible by 5. (5×5=25).
What is the Divisibility Rule of 7?
The divisibility rule of 7 states that, a number is divisible by 7, if “the difference between
twice the unit digit of the given number and the remaining part of the given number
should be a multiple of 7 or it should be equal to 0”.

For example, 798 is divisible by 7.

Explanation:

The unit digit of 798 is 8.

If the unit digit is doubled, we get 16 (i.e., 8 x 2 = 16)

The remaining part of the given number is 79.

Now, take the difference between 79 and 16.

= 79-16

=63

Here, the difference value obtained is 63, which is a multiple of 7. (i.e., 9 x 7 = 63)

Thus, the given number 798 is divisible by 7.

What is the Divisibility Rule of 11?

The divisibility rule of 11 states that, a number is divisible by 11, if


the difference of the sum of alternative digits of a number is divisible by 11, then that
number is divisible by 11 completely.

i.e., Sum of digits in odd places – Sum of digits in even places = 0 or a multiple of 11

In order to check whether a number like 2143 is divisible by 11, below is the following
procedure.

 Group the alternative digits i.e., digits which are in odd places together and digits in
even places together. Here 24 and 13 are two groups.
 Take the sum of the digits of each group i.e., 2+4=6 and 1+3= 4
 Now find the difference of the sums; 6-4=2
 If the difference is divisible by 11, then the original number is also divisible by 11.
Here 2 is the difference which is not divisible by 11.
 Therefore, 2143 is not divisible by 11.
Number Law
2 If a number is even or a number whose last digit is an
even number i.e. 2,4,6,8 including 0, it is always
completely divisible by 2.
3 Divisibility rule for 3 states that a number is completely
divisible by 3 if the sum of its digits is divisible by 3.
4 If the last two digits of a number are divisible by 4,
then that number is a multiple of 4 and is divisible by 4
completely.
5 Numbers, which last with digits, 0 or 5 are always
divisible by 5.
6 Numbers which are divisible by both 2 and 3 are
divisible by 6. That is, if the last digit of the given
number is even and the sum of its digits is a multiple of
3, then the given number is also a multiple of 6.
8 If the last three digits of a number are divisible by 8,
then the number is completely divisible by 8.
9 The rule for divisibility by 9 is similar to divisibility
rule for 3. That is, if the sum of digits of the number is
divisible by 9, then the number itself is divisible by 9.
10 Divisibility rule for 10 states that any number whose
last digit is 0, is divisible by 10.

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