Question

Tarek buys a pomegranate with 314 seeds. He buys a second pomegranate that has more seeds. The number of seeds in the second pomegranate is made of the digits 6, 3, 1, and 4, but not in that order.

Part A
If the value of 1 is 100 times greater in the second pomegranate, in
what place should the 1 be written in the second number? Explain
how you know.

Answer 1

thousands place: 4th one to the left of the decimal point, 1000.

Explanation:

You want the number place of a 1 that has a value 100 times that of the 1 in 314.

Place value

The digit 1 in the number 314 is in the "tens place." It signifies 1 ten is part of the value of the number 314.

The value of a digit 1 that is 100 times that will be ...

10 × 100 = 1000

That is, the digit will be found in the "thousands place," two digits to the left of the location in the number 314.

Thousands place

The 1 with a value of 1000 is written in the thousands place, the 4th place to the left of the decimal point.