True or false: Every positive integer is either prime or composite. Explain your answer

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True or false: Every positive integer is either prime or composite. Explain your answer.

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True or false: Every positive integer is either prime or composite. Explain your answer.

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Given statement is “True or false: Every positive integer is either prime or composite. Explain your answer”

Consider the integer p is prime for  and only positive factor of p are 1 and p.

Note the positive integer a is composite if there is integer b such that .

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