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Ranjit scratched his head, and walked back to his class. What was his value, he wondered.
He had learnt place value in arithmetic recently and this is what he understood about value. The digit 2 means just 2.
When you write 20, the 2 indicates there are 2 tens.
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Similarly when you write 2032, the 2 on your right denotes just 2 but the 2 on your left means there are 2 thousands.
So, depending upon the 'place' where a digit sits, it gets different values.
Let's take the number 167234. Each digit here has a different place value. 1 is in the lakh's place. In the number 167234, the place value of 1 is one lakh. 6 is in the ten-thousand's place. The place value of 6 in 167234 is 60,000. A number is the sum of the place values of its digits.
1,00,000 + 60,000 + 7000 + 200 + 30 + 4 = 167234. Ranjit has understood place value quite well now.
- Ranjit's uncle has a car that has the registration number 1945. What is the place value of 9 in it?
- Add 496, 3051 and 27. Find the digit in the hundred's place of the sum that you get.
