Powers of Ten
What is the value of 102
100
What is the value of the 3 in the number 234,567
30,000
There are 3 bags of candy and each of them weighs 24 pounds. How much do they weigh all together?
72 pounds
There are 10 busses heading to the school. Each one has 62 kids on it. How many kids are there in all?
620
What do we call the answer to a multiplication problem?
product
What is 1,000 written as a power of ten?
103
What number is 10 times greater than 2,700
27,000
234 x 5
1,170
23 x 45
1,035
What are the two numbers that get multiplied together called?
factors
What is the value of 3 x 104
30,000
What number is 1/10 the value of 52,000
(1/10 means 10 times LESS)
5,200
Ashley bought 7 packages of stickers. There were 168 stickers in each package. How many stickers did Ashley buy?
1,176 stickers
If there are 89 kids in the 5th grade and they each eat 105 pieces of candy a year, how many pieces do they eat in total?
9,345
The number 3 in this problem 103 tells us how many times to multiply the 10 times itself. What do we call that floating number 3?
exponent
(4 x 9) x 103
36,000
What number is 1,000 times greater than 380
380,000
3,456 x 9
31,104
555 x 67
37,185
The exponent 3 tells us how many times to multiply the 10 times itself. What do we call the 10 in 103?
base
(9 x 8) x 105
7,200,000
What number is 1/100 of 73,000
730
9,876 x 5
49,380
5,678 x 49
278,222
What is the name of the place that is 1,000 times greater than the thousands place?
millions