Country S has 12,345,000 residents who tested positive for COVID-19. What is the largest place value of the numeric part of this quantity?
what is the answer in a number form?
The largest place value of the numeric part of the quantity is in the millions place value. The answer in number form is 12,000,000.
The largest place value of the numeric part of the quantity 12,345,000 is the millions place.
In number form, the answer would be 10,000,000 (ten million).
To find the largest place value of the numeric part of the quantity, we need to determine the position or the significance of the leftmost digit in the number.
Given that the number is 12,345,000, we can break it down into its place values:
- The leftmost digit "1" is in the millions place.
- The next digit "2" is in the hundred thousands place.
- The following digit "3" is in the ten thousands place.
- The next digit "4" is in the thousands place.
- Then, the digit "5" is in the hundreds place.
- Lastly, the digit "0" is in the tens place.
Since the leftmost digit in this case is in the millions place, the largest place value of the numeric part is the millions place.
So, the answer in number form is 1,000,000 (one million).