Reading and writing numbers (age 9+)

Question 1

A city planner records the population of a town as 704,050. How should this number be written in words and in expanded form?

Accepted Answer

seven hundred four thousand fifty; 700,000 + 4,000 + 50

Answer

seven hundred four thousand fifty; 700,000 + 40,000 + 50

Answer

seven hundred four thousand fifty; 700,000 + 4,000 + 5

Answer

seven hundred four thousand fifty; 700,000 + 4,500

Question 2

Four student teams recorded the number of insects they collected. Their totals are: 508,123 508,312 508,321 515,028 Which list puts these four numbers in order from smallest to largest?

Accepted Answer

508,123, 508,312, 508,321, 515,028

Answer

508,321, 508,312, 508,123, 515,028

Answer

515,028, 508,123, 508,312, 508,321

Answer

508,123, 508,321, 508,312, 515,028

Question 3

The school’s science fair scoreboard shows that the total number of experiments done this year is 587,409. Which choice correctly writes this number in words and in expanded form?

Accepted Answer

five hundred eighty‑seven thousand four hundred nine; 500,000 + 80,000 + 7,000 + 400 + 9

Answer

five hundred seventy‑eight thousand four hundred nine; 500,000 + 70,000 + 8,000 + 400 + 9

Answer

five hundred eighty‑seven thousand four hundred nine; 500,000 + 80,000 + 700 + 400 + 9

Answer

five hundred eighty‑seven thousand four hundred nine; 500,000 + 80,000 + 7,000 + 40 + 9

Try three questions

A city planner records the population of a town as 704,050. How should this number be written in words and in expanded form?

Four student teams recorded the number of insects they collected. Their totals are: 508,123 508,312 508,321 515,028 Which list puts these four numbers in order from smallest to largest?

The school’s science fair scoreboard shows that the total number of experiments done this year is 587,409. Which choice correctly writes this number in words and in expanded form?

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