Wait, How would you divide 10 by 22....22 doesn't go into 10

you cannot because hen you divide the divisor has to be larger than the dividend unless you do fractions or decimals

Why is place value useful?

There's a concept in higher sciences like chemistry and biology called significant figures. It's complicated, but it is based on place value.

why does 9 hundreds divided by 10 = 90 tens?

900/10 = 90 which is actually 9 tens not 90 tens. Good luck in attempting.

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Whole number place value review

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Review whole number place value, and try some practice problems.

Place value chart

The number

7,654,321

can be placed on a place value chart as follows:

Millions	Hundred thousands	Ten thousands	Thousands	Hundreds	Tens	Ones
$7$ ‍	$6$ ‍	$5$ ‍	$4$ ‍	$3$ ‍	$2$ ‍	$1$ ‍

Whole number place value

In a whole number, the digit farthest to the right is always in the ones place. The next farthest to the right is in the tens place. The remaining digits continue to fill in the place values until there are no digits left.

Example: $459$ ‍

The number

459

is made up of

4

hundreds,

5

tens, and

9

ones.

We can also write this as:

459 = 400 + 50 + 9

Or we can use a place value chart:

Thousands	Hundreds	Tens	Ones
	$4$ ‍	$5$ ‍	$9$ ‍

Note: The farther the digit is to the left, the greater its place value. For example,

6

hundreds is greater than

6

ones because hundreds are farther to the left.

Want to learn more about place value? Check out this video.

Practice

Problem 1

What is the place value of the $8$ ‍ in $2, 894$ ‍?

Want to try more problems like this? Check out these exercises:
Intro to place value
Creating the largest or smallest number
Place value blocks

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Whole number place value review

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