how would you make middle number?

You would do that by using a decimal, like 1.5

how do i create the largest number?

Say you have the numbers 5 9 and 4 you would put 9 first then 5 and finally 4 so you have 954 Did this help?

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4th grade

Course: 4th grade > Unit 1

Lesson 1: Intro to place value

Creating the largest number

Name: Creating the largest number
Uploaded: 2013-08-08T01:01:56Z
Description: Sal arranges digits to make the largest possible number.

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Sal arranges digits to make the largest possible number. Created by Sal Khan.

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how can you put 300,99 together?
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The digits 1 to 7 are used to create a four-digit code to enter a locked room. How many different codes are possible if the digits may not be repeated and the code must be an even number greater than 5000?
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how do i create the largest number?
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  Say you have the numbers 5 9 and 4 you would put 9 first then 5 and finally 4 so you have 954 Did this help?
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Can you guys tell me what i should do when there is two number which is the same what should i do.please.^^
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so it the highest form of 3219 9321?
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Arrange the digits 2, 6, 0, and 1 so that you create the highest possible four-digit number. So the way I like to think about it is, if I'm trying to create as large of a number as possible, I want to put the largest numbers in the largest place value. So if it's a four-digit number-- so it's one, two, three, four-digit number-- whatever I put here, this is going to represent thousands. Whatever I put here is going to represent hundreds. Whatever I put here represents tens. And whatever I put here represents ones. So I want to maximize the number of thousands I have. For example, the largest number here is 6. I could make it 6,000. I could make it 600. I could make it 60, or I could make it 6. Well if I want as large a number as possible, I'm going to make it 6,000. Notice, if I put any other number in that place value-- if I put a 0 there, I would have no thousands. If I put 2 there, I'd only have 2,000. If I put 1 there, I'd only have 1,000. 6,000 is definitely going to be bigger than any of the numbers that could be constructed with the 2, 0, or 1 in the thousands place. Now the exact same logic, we want the next largest number in the hundreds place. So the next largest number here is a 2. So I'm going to put a 2 right over here. I'd rather have two hundreds than zero hundreds or one hundreds. That's going to make it bigger. Then, same exact idea-- we want the next largest number in the tens place. I'd rather have one 10 than zero 10. And then we're just left with the 0. So we're just going to put the 0 right over here. So we can make 6,210. If I wanted to make the smallest possible four-digit number, then I would rearrange this, so I have the smallest possible number in the thousands and the largest possible number in the ones. So the smallest possible number I could create is-- I'm going to be careful-- 0, 1, 2, 6. So the smallest possible number, if I just switch this around, would be 126 that I could construct out of these digits. But this is what they asked for. So we'll give 6,210.