Counting numbers are integers >0.
Composite numbers are non-primes.
The primes between 1 and 15 (discounting 1): 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13.
1 is not composite so we can eliminate it, too, leaving {4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12} as the set of composites between 1 and 15.