Powers of Ten Warm Up

Jim mails 10³ flyers to clients in one week. How many flyers does Jim mail?

• 1,000

• 10

• 100

• 10,000

10 X 10 X 10 X10 X 10=

• 100

• 1,000

• 10,000

• 100,000

The chocolate factory is about 1,200 miles from Mrs. Hill's house and this makes her very sad! What is this distance written as a whole number multiplied by a power of ten?

• 120 X 10⁰

• 12 X 10²

• 12 X 10³

• 12 X 10⁴

What is 56,000 written as a whole number multiplied by a power of ten?

• 56 X 10

• 56 X 100,000

• 56 X 1,000,000

• 56 X 1,000

8 X 10⁰ =

• 8

• 80

• 800

• 8,000

54.89 x 10² =

• 5.489

• 548.9

• 5,489

• .5489

74.53 / 10² =

• 7.453

• .7453

• 745.3

• 7,453

10⁵ =

• 1,000,000

• 1,000

• 100,000

• 10,000

4 x 100 + 3 x 10 + 1x1 + 2 x 1/100 + 4 x 1/1000

• 431.23

• 431.024

• 43.24

• 43.024

What is the meaning of 10³?

• 10 x 3

• 10 + 10 + 10

• 10 + 3

• 10 x 10 x10