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A store has a contest to guess the mass of 10,000 peanuts.if a peanut has a mass of about 0.45 gram,what would be a reasonable guess for the mass of 10,000 peanuts?

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Move the decimal point in 0.45 4 places to the right inserting zeroes where necessary

This gives 4,500 g = 4.5 kgs.
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