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Carlos has 58 pencils. What is the value of the digit 5 in this number?

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fifty is the value in your question
User Natheer Alabsi
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read it aloud: fifty-eight. The 5 stands for "50" or fifty.

another way to look at it is to count the position at which 5 is: it's the second position from the right. In our counting system, the places have the value of 10 to the power of (number of the position minus 1): the position is 2: so the value is 5(the digit)*10^(2-1), which is 5*10^(1)=5*10, which is 50
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