Whole-number place value
The question
What is the 5 worth in 501?
number:501
number:501
number:501
5→500
- Each column is worth ten times the one to its right.
- Count in from the right: the 5 sits in the hundreds.
- Its value is what it is worth in that place: 5 in the hundreds is 500.
How it works.
- 01
Each column is worth ten times the one to its right.
- 02
Count in from the right: the 5 sits in the hundreds.
- 03
Its value is what it is worth in that place: 5 in the hundreds is 500.