Answer:
100 times
Explanation:
oh, that took a while to understand, what the question is talking about.
it is about the digits 2 in the number of California's population.
the first "2" means obviously the first 2 when reading the digits from left to right.
that is in the 1000 position of the number. so, its value is 2000.
the third "2" is in the 10 position, so its value is 20.
2000 is 100 times greater than 20 (it has 2 more 0s, so there is a factor of 100).