Exponents
102
What is 100
A bakery made 45 loaves of bread on Monday. On Tuesday, they made 10 times as many.
How many loaves did they bake on Tuesday?
45 × 10 = 450 loaves
Explain why the digits move left but do not change.
Expected reasoning: Each time you multiply by 10, each digit’s place value increases by one power of ten (ones → tens, tens → hundreds, etc.).
105
What is 100,000
259 x 10
What is 2,590
A toy factory produces 76 action figures per hour. How many will it produce in 100 hours?
76 × 100 = 7,600 action figures
A product is 560,000. One of the factors is 56.
By what power of 10 was 56 multiplied?
Answer: 56 × 10,000 = 560,000
104
What is 10,000
263 x 100
What is 26,300
A library has 234 books on one shelf. If the library adds 10 shelves with the same number of books, how many books will there be in total?
234 × 10 = 2,340 books
What is the product of 259 x 10 to the nearest hundreds.
2590 rounded to 2600
108
What is 100,000,000
Which power of 10 is equivalent to 10 x 100=
What is 103
56 x 1000
What is 56,000
A car factory makes 125 cars each day. If production increases by a factor of 100, how many cars will they make?
125 × 100 = 12,500 cars
125 × 100 = 12,500 cars
Which number is 10 times greater than 8,430 but 10 times less than 843,000?
What is 84,300
10 to the power of 7
What is 10,000,000
Which power of 10 is equivalent to 100 x 1,000
What is 105
650 x 100
What is 65,000
A printing company prints 480 pages every minute. How many pages do they print in 1,000 minutes?
480 × 1,000 = 480,000 pages
A shipping company packs 248 boxes onto one truck. Each truck in the fleet carries 10 times as many boxes as the one before it.
If the first truck carries 248 boxes, how many boxes does the fourth truck carry?
Truck 1 = 248
Truck 2 = 248 × 10 = 2,480
Truck 3 = 2,480 × 10 = 24,800
Truck 4 = 24,800 × 10 = 248,000 boxes