Question

Fill in the blanks.
1 is neither ………………….nor…………………

Answer 1

Hint: Here we need to state about the number ‘1’ i.e.., a prime number or composite function.

Complete step-by-step answer:
As you know 1 is not a prime number, because 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, $1 \times 5,5 \times 1$involve 5 itself and also you know 1 is also not a composite number, because 1 is not formed by multiplying two smaller positive integers, and the divisor of 1 is itself.
Hence, 1 is neither prime number nor composite number.

Note: A composite number is a positive integer that can be formed by multiplying two smaller positive integers. Equivalently, it is a positive integer that has at least one divisor other than 1 and itself.