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suppose the leftmost digits of two numbers are 8 and 3.can you tell which number is greater?.explain.

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Answer:

We can not tell which one is greater

Explanation:

* Lets explain how to solve the number

- A digit is a single whole number from 0 to 9 in a number start from

10 or larger

- Place value can be defined as the value a digit in a number according

to its position in the number

- The digits of the number arranged from right to left

* The greatest number who has the greatest leftmost digits when

they have the same number of digits

- Ex : 147 ⇒ 100 + 40 + 7

621 ⇒ 600 + 60 + 1

- The greatest number is 621 because the leftmost digit in the

second number greater than the leftmost digit in the first number

* If the numbers do not have the same number of digits we can't say

which number is greater

- Ex: 86 ⇒ 80 + 6

324 ⇒ 300 + 20 + 3

- The leftmost digit in the first number is tens and the leftmost digit

in the second number is hundreds, of course hundreds are greater

than tens

- Then the number with leftmost digit 3 is greater than the number

with leftmost digit 8

* It depends on the two numbers have the same number of digits or

different number of digits

∴ We can not decide which one is greater

We can not tell which one is greater

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