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

1 goes in the thousands place in the second number.

Explanation:

In the first pomegranate, the 1 is in 314, so it is in the tens place.

In the second pomegranate, the value of the 1 is 100 times the value of the 1 in the first pomegranate, so since 100 × 10 = 1000, it must be in the thousands place. Therefore, the number of seeds in the second pomegranate is 1abc, where 1 is in the thousands place, and abc represent the digits 3,4, and 6, but we do not know in which order.