how do you make a power of ten?

It is simple a power of ten is just how many zeros it has for example 10^6 (Ten the power of 6) would have 6 zeros like this 1,000,000 which is One million. So to sum up 10^6= 1,000,000. Easy if you really think about it

What I do is I just count how many zeros there is in a number ex. 100,000, since there is five zeroes this number is 10 to the power of 5. I hope you found this helpful!

This was a lot better than the videos thanks!! :)

When you divide a negative by a negative, would it be a positive or a negative?

It would be positive. Just like in multiplication, if they're both positive or negative, it will be positive. If both numbers are different (in terms of being positive/negative) then the resulting quotient should be negative, assuming you did the math right!

why is this so easy! this is so easy I bet my younger sib would get this in a heart beat! why is this so easy!? we should be learning something harder!

dont be too confident! I learned that the hard way. Its good to be confident but not overconfident.

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5th grade

Course: 5th grade > Unit 10

Lesson 3: Powers of 10

Powers of 10 review

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Review the powers of 10 and try some practice problems.

Summary of powers of $10$ ‍

‍	‍	‍
$10^{1} =$ ‍	$10 =$ ‍	$10$ ‍
$10^{2} =$ ‍	$10 \times 10 =$ ‍	$100$ ‍
$10^{3} =$ ‍	$10 \times 10 \times 10 =$ ‍	$1000$ ‍

How do we evaluate powers of $10$ ‍?

To evaluate a power of

10

, we multiply the base

(10)

by itself the exponent amount of times.

Example:

10^{5}

has an exponent of

5

, so we multiply

10

times itself

5

times:

10^{5} = 10 \times 10 \times 10 \times 10 \times 10 = 100,000

The pattern

The number of zeros in the solution always matches the exponent.

Example:

10^{3} = 10 \times 10 \times 10 = 1000

, which has

3

zeros

Want to learn more about powers of ten? Check out this video.

Practice

Problem 1

Which of the following is equivalent to $10,000$ ‍?

Want to try more problems like this? Check out this exercise.

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