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Whole numbers

Whole number : Any number made out of 10 digits (0 through 9) is a whole number. It does not have fractional or
decimal part.

For example : 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,....... and so on.


Single digit whole numbers : 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
Two digit whole numbers : 10,11,12,......99
Three digit whole numbers : 100,101,102,......999
Four digit whole numbers : 1000,1001,1002,.......9999
and so on.

Quiz :
1.
2.
3.
4.

__________ is the smallest whole number.


Write the biggest one digit whole number.
Which is the smallest two digit whole number?
Which is the biggest 3 digit whole number?

Place value

Three digit numbers:

1) 255 = 2*hundred + 5*ten + 5*one


=

2*100

200

+ 5*10 + 5*1
+ 50

+ 5

255 = 200+50+5

255 can be written in 3 different forms :


Standard form: 255
Expanded form: 200+50+5
Word form: two hundred fifty five

2) 525 = 5*hundred + 2*ten + 5*one


=

5*100

500

+ 2*10 + 5*1
+ 20

+ 5

525 = 500+20+5

525 can be written in 3 different forms :


Standard form: 525
Expanded form: 500+20+5
Word form: five hundred twenty five

Note: Value of each place increases ten times as we move from the right hand
side to the left hand side of a number.

Six digit numbers:

1) 516,136 = 5*hundred thousand + 1*ten thousand + 6*thousand + 1*hundred + 3*ten + 6*one


=

5*100,000

1*10,000

6*1,000

500,000

10,000

6,000

+ 1*100

+ 3*10 + 6*1

100

30 +

516,136 can be written in 3 different forms :


Standard form: 516,136
Expanded form: 500,000+10,000+6,000+100+30+6
Word form: five hundred sixteen thousands one hundred thirty six

2) 251,584 = 2*hundred thousand + 5*ten thousand + 1*thousand + 5*hundred + 8*ten + 4*one


=

2*100,000

5*10,000

1*1,000

200,000

50,000

1,000

+ 5*100

+ 8*10 + 4*1

251,584 can be written in 3 different forms :


Standard form: 251,584
Expanded form: 200,000+50,000+1,000+500+80+4
Word form: two hundred fifty one thousands five hundred eighty four

500

80 +

Quiz :
1. Write in words :
i.
23,405
ii.
200,000+40,000+500+30
iii.
100,003
2. Write in standard form :
i.
600,000+20,00+7,000+30+5
ii.
Four hundred five thousand sixteen
iii.
Seventy thousand nine hundred ninety nine
3. Write in expanded form :
i.
501,002
ii.
Twenty thousand sixty
iii.
60,090

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