Suppose you counted one number per second.
Yo u would take about- to count to 100.
•1 6 ^12 minutes to count to 1000. - 2 hours and 42 minutes to count to 10,000.
- 1 day to count to 100,000.
•1 1 ^12 days to count to 1,000,000!
Yo u may make a table to find the answers
to questions 5–7. Explain your answers.- If you were 100 days old, would you be older
or younger than 1 year old? - About how many years old would you be if you
were 1000 days old? 10,000 days old?
(Hint:1 year365 days) - About how many years old would you be if you
were 100,000 days old? 1,000,000 days old?
?- How did you discover how old you would be if
you were 100 days old? - How did you discover how old you would be if
you were 1000; 10,000; 100,000; and
1,000,000 days old? - If you were to continue the
pattern from exercise 1 on
page 38, what would the
next three entries be? - Rewrite the last entry from
exercise 10. Which zero do you
think is in the millions place?
Underline it.
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