Question

What is the smallest composite number: 12, 59, 8, or 43?

Answer 1

`8`

Explanation:

Composite numbers are opposite of prime numbers, they have factors than `1` and themselves.

In here `43` and `59` are primes, and `8` and `12` are composite numbers, because they are multiples of numbers such as `2` and `4`.

We can clearly see that `8<12`.

`:. 8` is the smallest composite number out of this list.