Question

is 46 a prime or composite

Answer 1

To be 46 a prime number, it would have been required that 46 has onlytwo divisors, i.e., itself and 1. However, 46 is a semiprime (also called biprime or 2-almost-prime), because it is the product of a twonon-necessarily distinct prime numbers. Indeed, 46 = 2 x 23, where 2 and 23 are both prime numbers.

Answer 2

46 is a composite number in the sense that it is not only divisible by one and itself.

It is divisible by 2, 1, 23, 46...