Powers of Ten and Place Value
101
What is 10?
2 x 103
What is 2000?
Maria is having a party and wants to make punch. Her recipe calls for 2 liters of ginger ale. She has a measuring cup that only measures in milliliters. How many milliliters of ginger ale does she need?
What is 2000ml?
2 gallons = ____qts
What is 8 qts?
Sarah, has a large jug of water that holds 3,000 milliliters. How many liters of water are in Sarah's jug?
What is 3 Liters?
100 is considered to be 10 to the power of what?
What is 102?
The school library has a book drive. Ms. Chen's class collects 100 times as many books as Mr. Garcia's class. If Mr. Garcia's class collected 85 books, how many books did Ms. Chen's class collect?
What is 8,500 books?
The fish bowl in Dante's room has 8 liters of water. How many milliliters of water are in Dante's fish bowl?
What is 8,000 ml?
If Starbucks is 2 miles from your elementary school to your house, and you know that 1 mile is 5,280 feet. How many feet is Starbucks from your house?
What is 10,560 feet?
What is the value of the 3 in 320 compared to the value of the 3 in 230?
What is ten times greater?
The value of the 6 in 164,988 vs the 6 in 682,312 is what?
What is one tenth or 1/10 the value?
When multiplying by the power of ten, what does the exponent indicate?
How many times should I move my number forward, or how many times should I move my decimal to the right?
A construction worker is measuring a piece of lumber for a project. The total length required is 2.5 meters. He has a tape measure that only shows centimeters. If he cuts a piece that is 150 centimeters long, how much more lumber does he need to cut to reach the required length?
What is 100 cm?
Alexis orders twelve yards of fabric to make banners. If she needs 1 ft of fabric for each banner, how many banners can she make?
What is 36 banners?
53,812 divided by what can give me 53.812?
What is 103 power?
106 is?
What is 1,000,000? or What is 1 million?
A chemist is doing an experiment and must carefully measure the amounts of the mixtures and chemicals she is using. A certain experiment uses 0.25 liter of a mixture. The chemist wants to repeat this same experiment 103 times. How many liters of the mixture will she need?
Nick and his brother competed in the standing broad jump at the school’s field day. Nick jumped a distance of 205 centimeters. His brother’s distance was 55 centimeters longer than Nick’s distance. Which of the following shows the distance, in meters, that Nicks brother jumped.
What is 2.6 Meters?
Erika buys 7,000 milliliters of orange juice and 7.2 liters of grape juice. Which of the juices does Erin have the LEAST amount? (1 mL = 0.001 L)
What is orange juice?
Terry purchased 20 yards of ribbon to decorate baskets. She needs 32 feet of ribbon to decorate each basket. After she decorated one basket, how many feet of ribbon does she have left?
A. 12 feet
B. 28 feet
C. 32 feet
D. 48 feet
What is B. 28 ft?
A student wrote down two numbers. The first number is 3,285. The second number contains a digit 8 whose value is ten times as much as the value of the digit 8 in 3,285. What could the second number be?
a. 4,178
b. 7,850
c. 8,519
What is B. 7,850?
A factory produces 5,000 toys and needs to ship them equally into 100 boxes to send them to different stores. How many toys will go into each box?
What is 50 toys?
Ava filled 3 glasses with different amounts of water. The amounts were 225 ml, 370 ml, and 435 ml of water. Which of the following is the total amount of water, in liters, that Ava used to fill the 3 glasses?
What is 1.030 Liters?
Paige’s new baby sister weighs 6 pounds, 10 ounces. She wants to find the baby’s total weight in ounces. What is the weight of Paige’s sister in ounces?
16 ounces = 1 pound
What is 106 ounces?
9 inches of ribbons are needed for wrapping each present. How many presents can be wrapped with 6 yards of ribbons?
What is 24 presents?