Question

what is prime numbers?​

Answer 1

A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number.

For example,

5 is prime because the only ways of writing it as a product, 1 × 5 or 5 × 1, involve 5 itself. 

Answer 2

Answer:

a number that can be divided exactly only by itself and 1, for example 7, 17 and 41