0/2 = 0. The result is an integer, so the number 0 is divisible by 2. As a result, the number 0 is even.

Hope that helps!

taneja.niks wrote:I want comments on the GMAT instructors please

Is 0 even??????

As i rememebr my lessons from school 0 is neither Even nor ODD but according to one of the explanations in my princeton book it says 0 is even???

plz clarify.......

0 is indeed even because it falls between two odd integers on the number line.

0 is:
--even
--neither positive nor negative
--a multiple of all numbers (except for zero)
--not a factor of any numbers (division by zero is undefined)

Testluv wrote:0 is:
--even
--neither positive nor negative
--a multiple of all numbers (except for zero)
--not a factor of any numbers (division by zero is undefined)

I agree with all Deepak said. I had doubts about whether 0 is in fact a multiple of all numbers, because I thought that for this to be true, 0 would have to be the LCM (Least Common Multiple) of any two numbers. Upon further research however, I came to see that once again Deepak is right. So just writing to say thank you

-Patrick

Thanks for the kind words, Patrick!

By definition, lowest common multiple refers to the smallest positive multiple of two numbers.

Almost all GMAT questions involving multiples specify positive multiples and 0 is, thus, excluded in almost all GMAT questions involving multiples.

However, it is good to know (perhaps for a sneaky DS question!) that in the (rare) instances in which the question doesn't specify positive multiple, we need to include 0.