Question

Ahmed wrote two numbers. The first number has a 7 in its tenths place. The second number has a 7 with a value that is 1,000 times greater than the value of the 7 in the first number.In which place is the 7 in the second number?

Answer 1

Answer: In the hundreds place.

Step-by-step explanation:

1. You know that the first number has a 7 in its tenths place. This means that it is after the decimal point. You can write is as following:

x.7

Where x represents the other digits.

2. The second number has a 7 with a value that is 1,000 times greater than the value of the 7 in the first number, this means that you can know the place of the 7 in the second number if you multiply the first number by 1,000, or in other words, move the decimal point three places to the rigth. Therefore:

x.7*1000=7xx

3. As you can see, the 7 is in the hundred place in the second number.

Answer 2

Step-by-step explanation:

It is 7 in the ten thousands