Answer:
Prime numbers are number that has its factors to be 1 and itself
38 and 40 are not prime because they have more than one factor
38 = { 1 , 2 , 19 , 38} and
40 = { 1 , 2 , 4 , 5 , 8 , 10 , 20 , 40 }
This make his statement incorrect.
Hope this helps.