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The number 5 is a prime b composite...

The number 5 is a prime b composite...-example-1

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it is prime.

No number can be neither prime nor composite (maybe 0

No number can be both prime and composite

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The number 5 has no factors except '1' and itself. That's the definition of a prime number.
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