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How do you know how many places are in fifty million without writing the number in standard form

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We know that 1 million has 6 zeros. This means 1 million has 7 place values: one for the 1 and 6 for the zeros.

50 has 1 more place value than one, so 50 million has 1 more place value than 1 million.

So, 50 million has 8 place values.

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