Question: is 32 prime and why?
Answer: Is 32 a prime number? For 32, the answer is: No, 32 is not a prime number. The list of all positive divisors (i.e., the list of all integers that divide 32) is as follows: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32. For 32 to be a prime number, it would have been required that 32 has only two divisors, i.e., itself and 1.