If $P,Q,R$ are natural numbers where $P$ and $Q$ are primes, and $Q$ divides $PR$, which of the following is true?
- $P\mid\,Q$
- $P\mid\,R$
- $P\mid\,QR$
- $P\mid\,PQ$
I know that the last option is correct, but how? Thank you in advance.
Edit: The third option is $P|QR$
Original: The third option was $P|PR$.
No matter what the numbers $p$ and $q$ are, $p$ will always divide $pq$ because, by definition:
In your case, $pq = q\cdot p$, which means that $p|q$ (because you can take $x=p, y=pq$ and $k=q$ in the definition.
For the same reason $p|pr$, so the third property is also true.
The other two properties can be either true or false: