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A sixth grade student made this conjecture: every prime number can be expressed as the product of two prime numbers. Do you agree with the conjecture? Why or why not?

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Well a prime number is a number that cannot be multiplied by other numbers to equal it. So if it is a product of two other prime numbers it wouldn't be prime. For example, 11 is prime and 11 cannot be a product of two other prime numbers such as 5 and 3 because product means multiply not add which signifies that there is no prime number that is a product (answer to a multiplication problem) of two other prime numbers (that are the factors(